Phonetic reduction arises in the course of typical language production, when language
users produce a less clearly articulated form of a word. An important factor that affects …

Cross-linguistic studies of tactile sign language are still not widely performed internationally.
For this study, four deafblind informants in two different tactile sign languages, Swedish Sign …

We investigated the reference tracking strategies among deaf adults with signing deaf
parents (DoD) and adult deaf signers with non-signing hearing parents or caregivers (DoH) …

Corpus methods are now established within the field of signed language linguistics.
Empirical investigations of signed language corpora have challenged many early …

This chapter discusses the preparatory work of creating a collection of corpora, together
functioning as a multifaceted corpus of the same sign language, across three data subsets of …

In this chapter, we detail the on-going work related to the Norwegian Sign Language Corpus
and lexical database (Norwegian Signbank). In particular, we highlight the corpus' …

Investigations of quotatives are essential for understanding how humans talk about talking.
However, comparison of quotatives and other communicative phenomena have been …

This article investigates the use of co-enactment for stance-taking in Flemish Sign Language
(VGT) interactions. Enactment, ie, a signer or speaker combining “bodily movements …

Historically, sign language machine translation has been posed as a sentence-level task:
datasets consisting of continuous narratives are chopped up and presented to the model as …

Constructed action is a referential strategy whereby signers and speakers use their bodies
and/or voices to depict referents and their actions. Using a corpus-based study, this chapter …