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Lisa Stewart

Sign Language Researchers Broaden Science Lexicon - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Words like “organism” and “photosynthesis” — to say nothing of more obscure and harder-to-spell terms — have no single widely accepted equivalent in sign language. This means that deaf students and their teachers and interpreters must improvise, making it that much harder for the students to excel in science and pursue caree
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  • This year, one of those resources, the Scottish Sensory Centre’s British Sign Language Glossary Project, added 116 new signs for physics and engineering terms, including signs for “light-year,”  (hold one hand up and spread the fingers downward for “light,” then bring both hands together in front of your chest and slowly move them apart for “year”), “mass” and “X-ray” (form an X with your index fingers, then, with the index finger on the right hand, point outward). 
Ryan Catalani

Radiolab podcast: "Words" - 1 views

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  • Ryan Catalani on 19 Sep 10
     
    Three amazing stories about language: "We meet a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke, and retrace the birth of a brand new language 30 years ago." (also, the transcript is here: http://www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/transcript/)
  • mmaretzki on 01 Oct 10
     
    i'm enjoying it right now! check out the video, too. i'll try to bookmark it (my first!).
  • Lisa Stewart on 02 Oct 10
     
    Ahh...I see Ryan found it first! Thanks, Ryan!
Lisa Stewart

Study: Math Skills Rely on Language, Not Just Logic | Wired Science | Wired.com - 7 views

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  • Homesigners in Nicaragua are famous among linguists for spontaneously creating a fully formed language when they were first brought together at a school for the deaf in the 1970s. But many homesigners stay at home, where they share a language with no one. Their “home signs” are completely made up, and lack consistent grammar and specific number words.
  • Over the course of three month-long trips to Nicaragua in 2006, 2007 and 2009, Spaepen gave four adult Nicaraguan homesigners a series of tests to see how they handled large numbers. They later gave the same tasks to control groups of hearing Nicaraguans who had never been to school and deaf users of American Sign Language (which does use grammar and number words) to make sure the results were not just due to illiteracy or deafness.
  • When asked to recount the vignettes to a friend who knew their hand signals, the homesigners used their fingers to indicate the number of frogs. But when the numbers got higher than three or four, the signers’ accuracy suffered.
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  • Oddly, the homesigners did use their fingers to keep track of objects, the way children use their fingers to count. Spaepen thinks the signers use each individual finger to represent a unique object — the index finger is the red fish, the middle finger is the blue fish — and not the abstract concept of the number of fish. “They can’t represent something like exactly seven,” Spaepen said. “What they have is a representation of one-one-one-one-one-one-one.”
  • Ryan Catalani on 09 Feb 11
     
    "Psychologists had already suspected that language was important for understanding numbers. Earlier studies of two tribes in the Amazon - one that had no words for numbers greater than five and another whose counting system seemed to go "one, two, many" - showed that people in those tribes had trouble reporting exactly how many objects were placed in front of them. But in those cultures, which don't have monetary systems, there might be no need to represent large numbers exactly. The question posed was whether language kept those Amazonian people from counting, or a lack of cultural pressure. To address that question, Spaepen and colleagues turned to Nicaraguan homesigners, deaf people who communicate with their hearing friends and relatives entirely through made-up hand gestures."
rachaelsparks19

A Linguistic Big Bang - 1 views

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  • rachaelsparks19 on 09 Mar 18
     
    When Nicaraguan teachers failed to communicate with their 200 deaf students, the students worked together to create a linguistic structure of their own. Judy Kegl, a sign-language expert was contacted to try and decode their new language.
joellehiga17

Sign language may be helpful for children with rare speech disorder - 0 views

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  • joellehiga17 on 11 Oct 16
     
    This article talks about the rare speech disorder apraxia. Children diagnosed with apraxia have trouble saying certain sounds because the muscles in their mouth aren't able to make the movements required to make the sounds. The article talks about how sign language, along with other treatments, can help children learn to speak verbally.
lexiejackson21

Frontiers | Metaphor in Sign Languages | Psychology - 1 views

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  • lexiejackson21 on 25 May 21
     
    Some metaphors are common in spoken language but are inappropriate in sign, body-part metaphors are possible in sign metaphors but odd/uncommon in spoken metaphor. In spoken language, tone and body position determine when a metaphor is that and not literal. Sign metaphors also have similar markers such as change in facial expression but are more limited in expressing change in tone and body position (as the body is already the main mode of communication). There is a sign for "metaphor" or a way to slightly change the signs for common words in metaphor so that the "listener" knows that the "speaker" means something metaphorically as opposed to literally.
kmar17

In Philly, Sign Language Has Its Own Accent - 3 views

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  • kmar17 on 09 Mar 17
     
    Researchers have noticed that in Philly, signers have a distinct accent just like the language spoken there. The sign language in Philly is so different from ASL that it would be almost impossible for a person who uses ASL and a person who use Philadelphia sign language to communicate with each other. This is because Philadelphia sign language is similar to French Sign Language. As more advancements are made to help deaf people hear, the less people are learning how to sign and slowly the usage of the unique Philadelphia sign language decrease. Researchers are trying to find ways to help preserve this unique way of signing.
sydneyendo24

How the brain processes sign language - 0 views

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  • sydneyendo24 on 04 Mar 24
     
    This article details a study that analyzed the parts of the brain involved in producing and understanding sign language. A main conclusion of this study was that both spoken and sign languages utilize the same areas of the brain.
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