Constructing Complexity in a Young Sign Language

Complexity in two-handed signs in Kenyan Sign Language Evidence for sublexical structure in a young sign language

This paper investigates whether two-handed signs in Kenyan Sign Language, a relatively young school-based sign language, conform to the same constraints on combinations of movement and handshape that hold in other sign languages. An analysis of 467 two-handed signs, separated into four types based on complexity, found that KSL is highly constrained, with only a few signs that violate proposed c...

A Supervised Method for Constructing Sentiment Lexicon in Persian Language

Due to the increasing growth of digital content on the internet and social media, sentiment analysis problem is one of the emerging fields. This problem deals with information extraction and knowledge discovery from textual data using natural language processing has attracted the attention of many researchers. Construction of sentiment lexicon as a valuable language resource is a one of the imp...

Sign Language Development in Young Deaf Children

Morphological Complexity Influences Verb-Object Order in Swedish Sign Language

Computational linguistic approaches to sign languages could benefit from investigating how complexity influences structure. We investigate whether morphological complexity has an effect on the order of Verb (V) and Object (O) in Swedish Sign Language (SSL), on the basis of elicited data from five Deaf signers. We find a significant difference in the distribution of the orderings OV vs. VO, base...

task-based language teaching in iran: a mixed study through constructing and validating a new questionnaire based on theoretical, sociocultural, and educational frameworks

جنبه های گوناگونی از زندگی در ایران را از جمله سبک زندگی، علم و امکانات فنی و تکنولوژیکی می توان کم یا بیش وارداتی در نظر گرفت. زبان انگلیسی و روش تدریس آن نیز از این قاعده مثتسنی نیست. با این حال گاهی سوال پیش می آید که آیا یک روش خاص با زیر ساخت های نظری، فرهنگی اجتماعی و آموزشی جامعه ایرانی سازگاری دارد یا خیر. این تحقیق بر اساس روش های ترکیبی انجام شده است.پرسش نامه ای نیز برای زبان آموزان ...