The emergence of referential shift devices in three young sign languages
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DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103070
Abstract: Abstract Speakers use a range of devices, such as nouns and pronouns, to introduce referents and to indicate a shift between multiple referents. Sign languages also exploit different devices for signalling reference and referential shift.… read more here.
Keywords: referential shift; reference; shift; sign languages ... See more keywords
BETWEEN DISABILITY AND CULTURE: THE SEARCH FOR A LEGAL TAXONOMY OF SIGN LANGUAGES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
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DOI: 10.1017/s0020589324000253
Abstract: Abstract Since the 1960s sign languages have been identified as natural human languages and conceived of as a key feature of Deaf culture and identity. Eschewing the notion of disability, deaf advocacy organisations have connected… read more here.
Keywords: culture; sign languages; language; disability ... See more keywords
Mitigating Institutional Attitudes toward Sign Languages: A Model for Language Vitality Surveys.
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DOI: 10.1093/deafed/enab036
Abstract: This paper is about attitudes toward sign languages. The paper presents an idea to help make sign language surveys better in the future. In 2018, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) published… read more here.
Keywords: toward sign; language; attitudes toward; sign language ... See more keywords
Technological solutions for sign language recognition: a scoping review of research trends, challenges, and opportunities
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DOI: 10.1109/access.2022.3161440
Abstract: Sign languages are critical in conveying meaning by the use of a visual-manual modality and are the primary means of communication of the deaf and hard of hearing with their family members and with the… read more here.
Keywords: language recognition; language; sign language; sign languages ... See more keywords
The Relationship Between Community Size and Iconicity in Sign Languages
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70074
Abstract: Abstract Communication is harder in larger communities. Past research shows that this leads larger communities to create languages that are easier to learn and use. In particular, previous research suggests that spoken languages that are… read more here.
Keywords: sign; iconicity; community size; sign languages ... See more keywords
Child language acquisition research on indigenous African sign languages: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)
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DOI: 10.1177/01427237221104049
Abstract: It is not always the case that an endangered language goes through a revitalisation programme. For most endangered languages, there are no attempts for revitalisation, and we may never hear of them, nor understand their… read more here.
Keywords: language; language acquisition; sign languages; research ... See more keywords
What kind of phonological change do we see in sign languages? Response to Law, Power, and Quinto-Pozos
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DOI: 10.1353/lan.2025.a969629
Abstract: Abstract:In this response to the target article by Law, Power, and Quinto-Pozos, I draw attention to the fact that ‘sound change’ in sign languages does not seem to follow the Neogrammarian regularity principle and that,… read more here.
Keywords: quinto pozos; power quinto; law power; response ... See more keywords
Sociolinguistic Typology and Sign Languages
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00200
Abstract: This paper examines the possible relationship between proposed social determinants of morphological ‘complexity’ and how this contributes to linguistic diversity, specifically via the typological nature of the sign languages of deaf communities. We sketch how… read more here.
Keywords: nature; sign; morphological complexity; typology ... See more keywords
Constructing Complexity in a Young Sign Language
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02202
Abstract: A universally acknowledged, core property of language is its complexity, at each level of structure – sounds, words, phrases, clauses, utterances, and higher levels of discourse. How does this complexity originate and develop in a… read more here.
Keywords: complexity; language; constructing complexity; sign language ... See more keywords
Handling Sign Language Data: The Impact of Modality
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00483
Abstract: Natural languages come in two different modalities. The impact of modality on the grammatical structure and linguistic theory has been discussed at great length in the last 20 years. By contrast, the impact of modality… read more here.
Keywords: handling sign; impact modality; modality; sign language ... See more keywords
Simultaneous structures in sign languages: Acquisition and emergence
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.992589
Abstract: The visual-gestural modality affords its users simultaneous movement of several independent articulators and thus lends itself to simultaneous encoding of information. Much research has focused on the fact that sign languages coordinate two manual articulators… read more here.
Keywords: structures sign; languages acquisition; acquisition emergence; sign languages ... See more keywords