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Showing 1 to 20 of 248 for “"Sign Language"”.
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EXPLORING THE ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: LEXICAL BORROWING FROM CISTERCIAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND FRENCH SIGN LANGUAGE
American Sign Language (ASL) is the natural and preferred language of the Deaf community in both the United States and Canada. Woodward (1978) estimated that approximately 60% of the ASL lexicon is derived from early 19th century French Sign Language, which is known as langue des signes …
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"Hands off our language!" Deaf sign language teachers' perspectives on sign language standardisation
… of codified standard varieties of British Sign Language (BSL) and German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebclrdensprache, DGS), there have been repeated calls for the standardisation of both languages primarily from outside the deaf communities. The development of standard varieties has been …
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Parametric synthesis of sign language
… lack of knowledge most hearing people have of sign language. To most, there seems to be little need to learn a language that is spoken by such a small minority unless perhaps a relative is unable to hear. Even with a desire to learn, the task may seem insurmountable due to the unique …
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Assessing British sign language development
Sign bilingualism is one of several approaches to the education of deaf children in the UK Sign bilingualism seeks to introduce British Sign Language (BSL) to deaf children from an early age in order to establish a first language from which English, the majority language, can be acquired. However, …
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Hypersign: an interactive sign language dictionary
Call number: LD2668 .R4 CMSC 1989 L44
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Hypersign: an interactive sign language dictionary
Call number: LD2668 .R4 CMSC 1989 L44
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Coarticulation in American Sign Language Fingerspelling
Fingerspelling is a category of American Sign Language (ASL) signs that are signed sequentially as an alphabetic representation. The present study proposes to examine the coarticulation and feature-spreading characteristics of fingerspelling. A preliminary study identified feature categories to be …
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Numeral incorporation in American Sign Language
… and a base to form a compounded fully formed sign. Numeral-incorporated signs involve some sort of simultaneity of the base and the numeral. I interviewed six individuals who use ASL as their primary language in order to gather examples of numeral-incorporated signs in ASL, thus getting a …
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A kinematic analysis of sign language
Signed languages develop among deaf populations and employ manual communication instead of voiced communication. Stokoe attributes classify individual signs in American Sign Language (ASL) and include handshape, hand location, movement, orientation, and facial expression. Signed and oral languages …
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Parameter based synthesis of sign language
… of this project is to demonstrate synthesis of signs in American Sign Language with a finite number of parameters. The parameters in this method include 22 key locations, six location modifiers, six orientation indicators, 46 hand shapes, six predefined movements and seven possible end …
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Visual Perception in Hearing Sign Language Users
Deaf signers exhibit superior visual perception compared to hearing controls in several domains, including the perception of faces and peripheral motion. These visual enhancements are thought to compensate for an absence of auditory input. However, it is also possible that they reflect experience …
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Legal Recognition and Media Representation of Sign Languages: South African Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language as case studies
… investigates the legal recognition of national sign languages globally, and the relationship between sign language legal recognition and the representation of sign languages in newspaper media, using South African Sign Language (SASL) and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) as comparative case …
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Video annotation wiki for South African sign language
… system between English and South African Sign Language (SASL). Three important aspects of this system require SASL documentation and knowledge. These are: recognition of SASL from a video sequence, linguistic translation between SASL and English and the rendering of SASL. Unfortunately, …
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The mouthing of verbs in Japanese Sign Language
… shows that verbs are mouthed in natural Japanese Sign Language roughly 20% of the time, whereas other word classes are mouthed roughly 46% of the time. More than half of mouthed verbs are always or nearly always mouthed as one of their lexical properties. Abstract verbs tend to be mouthed more …
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The Syntax of British Sign Language: an Overview
… range of grammatical structures found in British Sign Language, resulting in an account of the types of structures found and any possible motivations for their use. British Sign Language is the first or preferred language of a large number of Deaf people in Britain, and may have as many as 120,000 …
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Algerian Jewish Sign Language: its emergence and survival
This thesis is concerned with Algerian Jewish Sign Language (AJSL) and the Algerian Jewish Sign Language community. AJSL developed naturally in the Jewish quarter of Ghardaia, a town in the sub-Saharan part of Algeria. A high percentage of deaf people lived in this quarter, and because of that a …
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Use of American Sign Language for Underwater Communication
… if beginning SCUBA divers with the use of sign language would reveal less anxiety and more self confidence, perform underwater tasks faster and perceive themselves safer and enjoying diving more because of their use of signs than two control groups without the use of signs.
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