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Spijker, Laura; Oomen, Marloes – Sign Language Studies, 2023
We present one of the first detailed studies on hesitation marking in a sign language. Based on the analysis of a set of monologues and dialogues from the "Corpus NGT" (Crasborn and Zwitserlood 2008; Crasborn, Zwitserlood, and Ros 2008), we describe the form and position of manual and nonmanual markers of hesitation in Sign Language of…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Cues, Computational Linguistics, Eye Movements
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Thumann, Mary – Sign Language Studies, 2013
By using depiction, language users are able to provide information about what an entity or event is like, what it looks like, or even what it acts like. When giving a presentation, signers may use and reuse instances of depiction and may switch from one instance to another. In an examination of 160 minutes of video of American Sign Language (ASL)…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Video Technology, Nonverbal Communication, Eye Movements
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Kaneko, Michiko; Mesch, Johanna – Sign Language Studies, 2013
This article discusses the role of eye gaze in creative sign language. Because eye gaze conveys various types of linguistic and poetic information, it is an intrinsic part of sign language linguistics in general and of creative signing in particular. We discuss various functions of eye gaze in poetic signing and propose a classification of gaze…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Human Body, Foreign Countries, Eye Movements
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Young, Lesa; Morris, Carla; Langdon, Clifton – Sign Language Studies, 2012
This study analyzes the manifestation of constructed dialogue in ASL narratives as dependent on the interface mode (i.e., face-to-face conversation, electronic conversation over videophone, and vlog monologues). Comparisons of eye gaze over three interface modes shows how aspects of constructed dialogue are altered to fit the communication mode.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Variation, Deafness, Eye Movements
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Siple, Linda A. – Sign Language Studies, 1993
Twenty master Sign Language interpreters transliterated monologue containing normal speech pausing and then transliterated same passage with inappropriate pausing and reduced intonation. When transliterating, interpreters render source message pauses with visible signals. Interpreters render different kinds of auditory pauses with different kinds…
Descriptors: Deaf Interpreting, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Interpreters
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Wilbur, Ronnie – Sign Language Studies, 1994
Attempts to formulate an appropriate linguistic generalization for the occurrence of inhibited periodic eyeblinking by fluent American Sign Language (ASL) signers. It is shown that signers' eyeblinks are sensitive to syntactic structure, from which intonational phrases may be derived. (19 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Eye Movements, Intonation, Language Research