Brain and language: a perspective from sign language

In addition to the ex- tensive and consistent experimental comparison of six different statistical methods on MEDIA as well as on two newly col- lected corpora in different

In Chapter 3: Study 1 we model cognitive impairment on an initial cohort of 92 'gold' subjects utilizing fully annotated data (transcripts and speaker labels),

a) that language study is centrally concerned with systematicity in grammar and coherence in discourse. Cf the rejection of Chomsky's ideal-speaker hearer in the

The five international workshops of the ESF project InterSign 1998–2000 (Bergman et al. 2001) testify to the emergent interest in the problems of discourse annotation among

The aim of this work is to find critical features which differentiate the gestural identity of human signers in order to provide a better control of the animated signers..

SUMMARY - Analyzing and transcribing a sign language is a difficult task since the mode of expression - hand movements in a space located close to the body,

In his Outline of English Phonetics [19], Jones claims that “a good ear can distinguish well over fifty vowels, exclusive of nasalized vowels, vowels pronounced with

While young militants have struggled for recognition of the Breton language, for visibility within French society, and for the language to be taught in schools and used in the