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A Sign is Just a Sign Open
Introduction Chapter 1. The Doctrine of Signs Chapter 2. Communication Chapter 3. The Semiotic Self Chapter 4. The Semiotic Self Revisited Chapter 5. In What Sense Is Language a OPrimary Modeling SystemO? Chapter 6. Linguistics and Semioti…
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Real-time Assamese Sign Language Recognition using MediaPipe and Deep Learning Open
People lacking the sense of hearing and the ability to speak have undeniable communication problems in their life. People with hearing and speech problems communicate using sign language with themselves and others. Sign language is not ess…
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Of the body and the hands: patterned iconicity for semantic categories Open
This paper examines how gesturers and signers use their bodies to express concepts such as instrumentality and humanness. Comparing across eight sign languages (American, Japanese, German, Israeli, and Kenyan Sign Languages, Ha Noi Sign La…
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Exploring Phonological Aspects of Australian Indigenous Sign Languages Open
Spoken languages make up only one aspect of the communicative landscape of Indigenous Australia—sign languages are also an important part of their rich and diverse language ecologies. Australian Indigenous sign languages are predominantly …
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Neural systems supporting linguistic structure, linguistic experience, and symbolic communication in sign language and gesture Open
Significance Although sign languages and nonlinguistic gesture use the same modalities, only sign languages have established vocabularies and follow grammatical principles. This is the first study (to our knowledge) to ask how the brain sy…
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Pantomime as the original human-specific communicative system Open
We propose reframing one of the key questions in the field of language evolution as what was the original human-specific communicative system? With the help of cognitive semiotics, first we clarify the difference between signals, which cha…
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Comparing sign language and gesture: Insights from pointing Open
How do the signs of sign language differ from the gestures that speakers produce when they talk? We address this question by focusing on pointing. Pointing signs play an important role in sign languages, with some types functioning like pr…
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Why language really is not a communication system: a cognitive view of language evolution Open
While most evolutionary scenarios for language see it as a communication system with consequences on the language-ready brain, there are major difficulties for such a view. First, language has a core combination of features-semanticity, di…
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Visible Meaning: Sign language and the foundations of semantics Open
While it is now accepted that sign languages should inform and constrain theories of ‘Universal Grammar’, their role in ‘Universal Semantics’ has been under-studied. We argue that they have a crucial role to play in the foundations of sema…
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Young children spontaneously recreate core properties of language in a new modality Open
How the world’s 6,000+ natural languages have arisen is mostly unknown. Yet, new sign languages have emerged recently among deaf people brought together in a community, offering insights into the dynamics of language evolution. However, do…
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Peirce’s Twenty-Eight Classes of Signs and the Philosophy of Representation Open
The major principles and systems of C. S. Peirce’s ground-breaking theory of signs and signification are now generally well known. Less well known, however, is the fact that Peirce initially conceived these systems within a ’Philosophy of …
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The Body as Evidence for the Nature of Language Open
Taking its cue from sign languages, this paper proposes that the recruitment and composition of body actions provide evidence for key properties of language and its emergence. Adopting the view that compositionality is the fundamental orga…
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Positive signs: How sign language typology benefits deaf communities and linguistic theory Open
Sign language typology is the systematic comparative study of linguistic structures across sign languages, and has emerged as a separate linguistic sub-discipline over the past 15 years. It is situated at the crossroads between linguistic …
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Linguistic landscape at Yogyakarta’s senior high schools in multilingual context: Patterns and representation Open
The study of linguistic landscape as a new approach to multilingualism has not been much explored within the Indonesian context. With regard to its significance to reveal various aspects of language use in education, this paper focuses on …
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Semiotic Multimodality Communication in The Age of New Media Open
The age of new media is changing the social order of communication. The availability of the widest access for internet users to communicate without time and region limitations is a feature of this digital media era. The second distinctive …
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Real Time Sign Language Recognition and Speech Generation Open
Sign Language is the method of communication of deaf and dumb people all over the world. However, it has always been a difficulty in communication between a verbal impaired person and a normal person. Sign Language Recognition is a breakth…
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Developmental evidence for continuity from action to gesture to sign/word Open
What is linguistic communication and what is it not? Even if we often convey meanings through visible bodily actions, these are rarely considered part of human language. However, co-verbal gestures have compositional structure and semantic…
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Differential object marking in sign languages Open
Sign languages are sometimes claimed to lack argument marking, yet they exhibit many devices to track and disambiguate referents. In this paper, I will argue that there are devices found across sign languages that demonstrate how object ma…
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Simulation and Analysis of Hand Gesture Recognition for Indian Sign Language using CNN Open
Sign Language Recognition is a device or program to help deaf and mute people. However, communication has always been difficult for a person with verbal and physical disabilities. Sign language recognition communication between the average…
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Towards understanding nonmanuality: A semiotic treatment of signers’ head movements Open
This article discusses a certain type of nonmanual action, signers’ head movements, from a semiotic perspective. It presents a typology of head movements and their iconic, indexical and symbolic features based on Peircean and post-Peircean…
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Conversation of Sign Language to Speech with Human Gestures Open
Inability to speak is considered to be true disability. People with this disability use different modes to communicate with others, there are n number of methods available for their communication one such common method of communication is …
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The language instinct in extreme circumstances: The transition to tactile Italian Sign Language (LISt) by Deafblind signers Open
Tactile sign languages used by Deafblind signers are most often acquired by signers competent in a visual sign language who can no longer rely on the grammatical system of the visual language as it is, since some of its features are lost d…
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Grounding Ecological Democracy: Semiotics and the Communicative Networks of Nature Open
Developments in biosemiotics and democratic theory enable renewed appreciation of the possibilities for ecological democracy. Semiotics is the study of sign processes in meaning-making and communication. Signs and meanings exist in all liv…
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Sign, Meaning, and Understanding in Victoria Welby and Charles S. Peirce Open
Like Peirce, recognized as the “father-founder” of modern semiotics, Welby too, although just recently (despite her influence on important contemporary scholars), is acclaimed as the “mother-founder,” thus entering the pantheon of the “fat…
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The emergence of the phonetic and phonological features in sign language Open
Sign languages offer a unique and informative perspective on the question of the origin of phonological and phonetic features. Here I review research showing that signs are comprised of distinctive features which can be discretely listed a…
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Functions of language in the social context Open
The article considers the language in use, in the process of interaction and as a sign system used in the process of communication, describes the functions of the language. The language is a system of discrete signs that serve to communica…
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Evolving artificial sign languages in the lab: from improvised gesture to systematic sign Open
Recent work on emerging sign languages provides evidence for how key properties of linguistic systems are created. Here we use laboratory experiments to investigate the contribution of two specific mechanisms– interaction and transmission–…
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Recognition of sign language using neural networks Open
This thesis details the development of a computer system (labelled the SLARTI system) capable of recognising a subset of signs from Auslan (the sign language of the Australian Deaf community), based on the pattern classification paradigm o…
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A Sign Language Recognition System Applied to Deaf-Mute Medical Consultation Open
It is an objective reality that deaf-mute people have difficulty seeking medical treatment. Due to the lack of sign language interpreters, most hospitals in China currently do not have the ability to interpret sign language. Normal medical…
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Signed Languages: A Triangular Semiotic Dimension Open
Since the beginning of signed language research, the linguistic units have been divided into conventional, standard and fixed signs, all of which were considered as the core of the language, and iconic and productive signs, put at the edge…