Search results for "Flemish Sign Language"

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From Erasure to Recognition (and Back Again?)

2015

CommunicationFlemish Sign LanguageManually coded languagebusiness.industrylanguageSociolinguistics of sign languagesErasureSign languagePsychologybusinesslanguage.human_languageLinguistics
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Mutual intelligibility among the sign languages of Belgium and the Netherlands

2015

AbstractIn an exploratory study of mutual intelligibility between the sign languages of the northern part of Belgium (Flemish Sign Language, VGT), the southern part of Belgium (French Belgian Sign Language, LSFB), and the Netherlands (Sign Language of the Netherlands, NGT), we tested the comprehension of VGT by signers of LSFB and NGT. In order to measure the influence of iconic structures (classifier constructions and constructed action) that linguistic analyses have shown to be similar across different sign languages, two genres were compared: narrative and informative signing. To investigate the effect of the overlap between the spoken languages surrounding the Dutch and Flemish Deaf com…

Cross-language activation and cognitive effects in bimodal bilinguals [Handy connections between signing and speaking]Sign Language LinguisticsnarrativeLinguistics and LanguageHistoryManually coded languageiconicitySign languageSimultaneous constructions in signed language discourseLanguage and Linguisticslanguage.human_languageLinguisticsmutual intelligibilityComprehensionMutual intelligibilityFlemishFlemish Sign Languageviittomakielilanguagesign languagemouthingMouthingIconicityGeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.dictionariesencyclopediasglossaries)
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Existential sentences in Flemish Sign Language and Finnish Sign Language

2016

This paper presents a descriptive and comparative study of existential sentences in Flemish Sign Language and Finnish Sign Language. Existential sentences are used to express the existence or presence of something or someone. This study investigates how expressions of existence or presence are constructed and what the order of Figure and Ground is in existential sentences in both languages. Existential sentences can be formed around the lexical signs HEEFT (‘have’) in Flemish Sign Language and OLLA (‘have’) in Finnish Sign Language or the lexical signs can be omitted from the construction. The number of existential sentences with an overt HEEFT/OLLA is higher in Finnish Sign Language than F…

existential sentenceFlemish sign languagediskurssisuomalainen viittomakielifunktionalismilauseoppi
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Expressing existence in Flemish Sign Language

2008

kielioppiviittomakielieksistenssisanajärjestysflaamilainen viittomakielifunktionalismiFlemish Sign Languageexistential construction
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