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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Sign Languages"”.
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Data-driven machine translation for sign languages
… of data-driven machine translation (MT) to sign languages (SLs). The provision of an SL MT system can facilitate communication between Deaf and hearing people by translating information into the native and preferred language of the individual. We begin with an introduction to SLs, focussing …
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Toward a further understanding of the extensibility of sign languages
<p>Sign language video recordings have limited extensibility when compared with live, face-to-face communication by signers. In an effort to improve the extensibility of video recordings this study explores the possibility of leveraging a common meaning negotiation technique, depictional signing, …
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Sign Languages of Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, and their Challenges for Sign Language Typology
The diverse sign languages (SLs) between established deaf community SLs and homesign have been called the “grey area” of SL linguistics, by virtue of their resistance to classification and the fact that they are understudied (Nyst, 2010, p. 416). This thesis investigates the languages of 12 deaf …
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Sign Languages of Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, and their Challenges for Sign Language Typology
The diverse sign languages (SLs) between established deaf community SLs and homesign have been called the “grey area” of SL linguistics, by virtue of their resistance to classification and the fact that they are understudied (Nyst, 2010, p. 416). This thesis investigates the languages of 12 deaf …
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A Comparison of Chinese and Taiwan Sign Languages: Towards a New Model for Sign Language Comparison
It is commonly believed that sign language is a universal language. However,linguists researching sign languages have demonstrated that deaf people from differentcommunities have their own languages. This research is aimed at creating a synchroniclexical comparison of Taiwan Sign Language (TSL) and …
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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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K posesivitě v českém znakovém jazyce
… the ways of expressing possessiveness in Czech sign language, using a replication of the research described in Possessive and existential constructions in sign languages (Zeshan - Perniss, 2008), which is a part of a series formulating the first findings concerning the typology of sign …
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Locative expressions in signed languages: A cross-linguistic comparison
… focus of this paper is to examine whether sign languages organize their locative expressions similarly to spoken languages. Paving the way in the study of spatial relations by focusing on the structuring of ON and IN locatives in spoken languages, Bowerman and colleagues (Bowerman 1980; …
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The numeral system of Japanese Sign Language from a cross-linguistic perspective
This thesis investigates how the Japanese Sign Language (JSL) numeral system can be characterised with respect to aspects of the linguistic structure of JSL numerals at the phonological and morphological levels; to typological comparisons with other sign languages; and, finally, to sociolinguistic …
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Animador: um serviço de geração semiautomática de sinais em libras
… (ICTs). These technologies are usually designed for people who understand the spoken language, whereas for the deaf, the oral language is considered something like a "second language". On the other hand, companies responsible for making such information available feel great difficulty in …
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A Descriptive Grammar of Morphosyntactic Constructions in Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL)
… Community, consisting of approximately 25,000 sign language users, has seen significant developments in its recent history. Government recognition of sign language, establishment of schools for the deaf, and the beginnings of research into Ugandan Sign Language (UgSL) have been important …
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Frekvenční analýza tvarů ruky ve vybraných slovnících českého znakového jazyka
… and their frequency in the selected Czech sign language dictionaries. The main aim was to analyze the occurence of handshapes in two types of Czech sign language dictionaries (general and terminology) and compare them. A secondary aim was to analyze the handshapes of active and passive hand …
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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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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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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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An Online Learning Platform for English as a second language for young deaf Indian Sign Language users: usage patterns and user engagement
… that facilitates and enhances learning for sign language users learning English as a second language (L2) through the signed and the written mediums (Pandian, 2006). Use of an ELP3 environment is complicated by the fact that sign languages rely on faceto-face communication (Johnson & …
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Aspects of morphology and syntax of negation in Greek sign language
… syntax and scope of negation in the Greek Sign Language with emphasis on the means and mechanisms that this sign language employs in order to express negation. The data analysis presented is based on natural data provided by Deaf informants. The initial pilot study provided elicited data, …
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Views of teachers and parents on use of local sign language in teaching literacy education among hearing-impaired learners in lower grades: a case of selected primary schools in Lusaka, Zambia
… views of teachers and parents on use of local sign language in teaching literacy education to hearing-impaired learners in lower grades. The objectives of the study were to: identify local language signs used in the teaching of literacy education in schools; establish the views held by teachers …
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Views of teachers and parents on use of local sign language in teaching literacy education among hearing-impaired learners in lower grades: a case of selected primary schools in Lusaka, Zambia
… views of teachers and parents on use of local sign language in teaching literacy education to hearing-impaired learners in lower grades. The objectives of the study were to: identify local language signs used in the teaching of literacy education in schools; establish the views held by teachers …
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A survey of those in the U.S. Deaf community about reading and writing ASL
… principle suggests that literacy in American Sign Language (ASL) may improve literacy in English for students who are deaf. However, the Deaf community in the United States has not widely adopted a written form of ASL. This research surveys individuals in the U.S. Deaf community to better …
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