Automatic translation from signed to spoken languages is an interdisciplinary research
domain on the intersection of computer vision, machine translation (MT), and linguistics …

Sign language descriptions that use an analytic model borrowed from spoken language
structural linguistics have proved to be not fully appropriate. Pictorial and action-like modes …

This paper provides an overview of what we take to be the key current issues in the field of
Generative Grammar, the study of the human Faculty of Language. We discuss some of the …

This paper presents a critical examination of key concepts in the study of (signed and
spoken) language and multimodality. It shows how shifts in conceptual understandings of …

This is a vocabulary research manual. It aims to give you the background knowledge
necessary to design rigorous and effective research studies into the behavior of L1 and L2 …

How do we understand what others are trying to say? The answer cannot be found in
language alone. Words are linked to hand gestures and other visible phenomena to create …

The multimedia annotation tool ELAN was enhanced within the Corpus NGT project by a
number of new and improved functions. Most of these functions were not specific to working …

Grammatik multimodal erschließt neues Terrain und argumentiert für die Erweiterung des
Gegenstandsbereichs lautsprachlicher Grammatiken: Das menschliche Sprechen besteht …

Sign language in action is a term that we have coined to encompass how sign languages
are used in everyday life. In Chapter 2, we framed the notion of sign language in action …

The goal of the article is to offer a framework against which relations between gesture and
sign can be systematically explored beyond the current literature. It does so by (a) …