This paper lays out the components of a language acquisition model, the interconnections among the components, and the differing stances of nativism and empiricism about syntax. After demonstrating that parsimony cannot decide between the two stances, the paper analyzes nine examples of evidence that have been used to argue for or against nativism, concluding that most pieces of evidence are ei...

Systems that automatically process sign language rely on appropriate data. We therefore present the ATIS sign language corpus that is based on the domain of air travel information. It is available for five languages, English, German, Irish sign language, German sign language and South African sign language. The corpus can be used for different tasks like automatic statistical translation and au...

El uso de un nombre/apodo/SEÑA dentro la comunidad sorda representa papel importante, pues se trata una seña que identifica no solo a los miembros sordos misma comunidad, sino también oyentes están relacionados con ella. Esta es dada por uno e implica tanto aceptación como identidad misma. La creación personal en Lengua Señas Mexicana responde diversas maneras formación del nombre/apodo/seña va...

Background Deaf education has undergone significant changes over the past one hundred years: none more major than the swing away from using sign languages at the end of the 19th century to the reverse of that trend today. Sign languages are increasingly being used in bilingual deaf education programmes in Europe and the USA (Kyle 1987, Strong 1988, Quigley & Paul 1987, Johnson, Liddell and Erti...

The work reported in this study is based on research that has been carried out while developing a sign synthesis system for Greek Sign Language (GSL): theoretical linguistic analysis as well as lexicon and grammar resources derived from this analysis. We focus on the organisation of linguistic knowledge that initiates the multi-functional processing required to achieve sign generation performed...