Spoken and Sign Language Emergence: A Comparison

Bilingual Sign Language Dictionary To Learn The Second Sign Language Without Learning A Target Spoken Language

Spoken Language Processing Techniques for Sign Language Recognition and Translation

We present an approach to automatically recognize sign language and translate it into a spoken language. A system to address these tasks is created based on state-ofthe-art techniques from statistical machine translation, speech recognition, and image processing research. Such a system is necessary for communication between deaf and hearing people. The communication is otherwise nearly impossib...

Spoken Spanish generation from sign language

Please cite this article in press as: San-Segun j.intcom.2009.11.011 This paper describes the development of a Spoken Spanish generator from sign-writing. The sign language considered was the Spanish sign language (LSE: Lengua de Signos Española). This system consists of an advanced visual interface (where a deaf person can specify a sequence of signs in signwriting), a language translator (for...

Spoken Language Activation Alters Subsequent Sign Language Activation in L2 Learners of American Sign Language.

A large body of literature has characterized unimodal monolingual and bilingual lexicons and how neighborhood density affects lexical access; however there have been relatively fewer studies that generalize these findings to bimodal (M2) second language (L2) learners of sign languages. The goal of the current study was to investigate parallel language activation in M2L2 learners of sign languag...

The emergence of temporal language in Nicaraguan Sign Language.

Understanding what uniquely human properties account for the creation and transmission of language has been a central goal of cognitive science. Recently, the study of emerging sign languages, such as Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL), has offered the opportunity to better understand how languages are created and the roles of the individual learner and the community of users. Here, we examined the...