Language is one of the most fundamental defining features of the human being, and
scholars have been trying to capture its essentials for thousands of years. One way of doing …

A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its
contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language …

Many deaf people have significant reading problems. Written content, eg on internet pages,
is therefore not fully accessible for them. Embodied agents have the potential to …

Prosodic structure in sign languages is encoded by articulations of the hands, face, and
body. Despite the different physical system, there are many similarities to prosody of spoken …

Many sign languages are bona fide natural languages with grammatical rules and lexicons
hence can benefit from machine translation methods. Similarly, since sign language is a …

Information Structure in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands Page 1
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Although sign languages are crucial for research on the human linguistic capacity, argument
structure in these languages is rarely addressed in theoretical and typological studies. This …

Facial expressions of emotion are thought to have evolved from the development of facial
muscles used in sensory regulation and later adapted to express moral judgment. Negative …

Sign languages make use of the two hands, facial features, the head, and the body to
produce multifaceted gestures that are dedicated for linguistic functions. In a newly …

Translating written sentences from oral languages to a sequence of manual and non-
manual gestures plays a crucial role in building a more inclusive society for deaf and hard-of …