scholarly journals How does a Deaf Child, Who is Acquiring Japanese Sign Language as a First Language, Learn Japanese?

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Takashi TORIGOE ◽  
Wataru TAKEI
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
First Language ◽  
Deaf Child ◽  
Japanese Sign Language ◽  
Language Learn

scholarly journals The value of interaction in the acquisition of a sign language

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-798
Author(s):  
Elidéa Lúcia Almeida Bernardino
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
First Language ◽  
Deaf Child ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Hearing Parents ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Deaf Parents ◽  
Brazilian Sign Language ◽  
First Contact

The acquisition of a sign language as a first language is a subject that is also of interest to researchers from many fields of study. This acquisition is significant for both deaf children of deaf parents as well as those of hearing parents, who consequently have late access to a language like Brazilian Sign language (Libras). The present study describes a test conducted with a pair of deaf twins who have hearing parents and who had their first contact with Libras at 5 years of age. However, upon being tested less than three years later, the twins showed a performance in Libras that was comparable to a deaf child of deaf parents. Although inconclusive, this study seeks to show the value of a continuous interlocutor, together with a genuine communicative interaction beginning from childhood, as commonly occurs with deaf twins, in the acquisition of a sign language.

Proper Name Machine Translation from Japanese to Japanese Sign Language

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taro Miyazaki ◽  
Naoto Kato ◽  
Seiki Inoue ◽  
Shuichi Umeda ◽  
Makiko Azuma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Machine Translation ◽  
Proper Name ◽  
Japanese Sign Language

Revisiting Curricula for Deaf Students

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stein Erik Ohna
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Educational System ◽  
School System ◽  
First Language ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Deaf Students ◽  
National Policies ◽  
Classroom Processes ◽  
The Right

The Norwegian National Curriculum in 1997 introduced four subject curricula for deaf students as part of new legislation giving deaf students who have acquired sign language as their first language the right to instruction in the use of sign language and through the medium of sign language. A few years later, new hearing technologies contributed to substantial changes in the educational context. This situation has challenged the school system, schools, and teachers. The chapter is organized in three sections. First, the educational system and the process leading to the introduction of new legislation is presented. The second section deals with information about the use of curricula for deaf students. The last section discusses issues of students’ achievements, classroom processes, and national policies.

Production of prominence in Japanese sign language

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saori Tanaka ◽  
Masafumi Nishida ◽  
Yasuo Horiuchi ◽  
Akira Ichikawa
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Japanese Sign Language

scholarly journals How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign

Gesture ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dea Hunsicker ◽  
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Deaf Child ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Linguistic Structure ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Hearing Parents ◽  
Signed Language ◽  
Combinatorial System ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Do So

All established languages, spoken or signed, make a distinction between nouns and verbs. Even a young sign language emerging within a family of deaf individuals has been found to mark the noun-verb distinction, and to use handshape type to do so. Here we ask whether handshape type is used to mark the noun-verb distinction in a gesture system invented by a deaf child who does not have access to a usable model of either spoken or signed language. The child produces homesigns that have linguistic structure, but receives from his hearing parents co-speech gestures that are structured differently from his own gestures. Thus, unlike users of established and emerging languages, the homesigner is a producer of his system but does not receive it from others. Nevertheless, we found that the child used handshape type to mark the distinction between nouns and verbs at the early stages of development. The noun-verb distinction is thus so fundamental to language that it can arise in a homesign system not shared with others. We also found that the child abandoned handshape type as a device for distinguishing nouns from verbs at just the moment when he developed a combinatorial system of handshape and motion components that marked the distinction. The way the noun-verb distinction is marked thus depends on the full array of linguistic devices available within the system.

scholarly journals Sign Language, Symbols and Meanings in Social Life/لغة الإشارة والرموز ومعانيها في الحياة الاجتماعية

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Cicik Aini
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
First Language ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Body Language ◽  
International Language ◽  
Steel Factory

Body language is the first language used by human. It is based on movement, writing code, and sign modern society majority used body language as communication in every sector, thus we use body language in daily life and in every moment. And several legal cauncils use body language in their working side. Sign is an international language used by many circles as like crossing sign, in steel factory military, flight company, and maritime company.تعتبر لغة الاشارة اقدم لغة استخدمها الانسان منذ بدء الخليقة للتحاور والتواصل , نظراً لبساطتها واعتمادها على الحركة والرموز والإيماءات. وفي معظم المجتمعات الحضرية و الريفية يستخدم الافراد ايماءات و اشارات يفهمونها ويقومون بانتاجها للتعبير عن حاجاتهم المتنوعة , وقد نلجأ احياناً لاستخدام الاشارات في حياتنا اليومية ونعتمدها في ظروف خاصة كالتواصل مع شخص لا نفهم لغته وتستعمل بعض الهيئات الرسمية الاشارات في ميادين عملها , وهي لغة عالمية يستخدمها الجميع مثل : اشارات المرور و الاشارات التي يؤديها العاملون في البورصة او السكك الحديدية او في الجيش او مجال الطيران او البحرية او الكشافة وتبين ان هذه الاشارات يصعب الاستغناء عنها بمجتمعنا.

scholarly journals Sign Order in Slovenian Sign Language Transitive and Ditransitive Sentences

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-220
Author(s):  
Matic Pavlič
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
First Language ◽  
Picture Description ◽  
Classifier Predicates ◽  
Description Task

The basic sign order in Slovenian Sign Language (SZJ) is Subject-Verb-Object (SVO). This is shown by analysing non-topicalised or focalised transitive and ditransitive sentences that were elicited from first language SZJ informants using Picture Description Task. The data further reveal that the visual-gestural modality, through which SZJ is transmitted, plays a role in linearization since visually influenced classifier predicates trigger the non-basic SOV sign order in this language.

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