ASL-LEX is a lexical database that catalogues information about nearly 1,000 signs in
American Sign Language (ASL). It includes the following information: subjective frequency …

Most of what is known about the mental lexicon comes from studies of spoken language and
their written forms. Signs differ from spoken/written words in two important ways that may …

When learning a second spoken language, cognates, words overlapping in form and
meaning with one's native language, help breaking into the language one wishes to acquire …

This paper presents a study that compares non-manual markers of polar and wh-questions
to statements in Kazakh-Russian Sign Language (KRSL) in a dataset collected for NLP …

Repetition priming and event‐related potentials (ERPs) were used to investigate the time
course of sign recognition in deaf users of American Sign Language. Signers performed a …

This study investigated the electrophysiological signatures of phonological and semantic
priming in American Sign Language (ASL). Deaf signers made semantic relatedness …

For sign languages, transitional movements of the hands are fully visible and may be used
to predict upcoming linguistic input. We investigated whether and how deaf signers and …

One striking commonality between languages is their Zipfian distributions: A power-law
distribution of word frequency. This distribution is found across languages, speech genres …

This study investigates differences in language production of native, early-learner, and late-
learner Turkish Sign Language (Türk İşaret Dili–TİD) signers in the domain of classifiers. For …

This paper presents the first steps in the process of creating a multimedia corpus for the
severely endangered Finland-Swedish Sign Language (FinSSL). In the paper, we will first …