The sublexical structure of a sign language

Lucinda Ferreira Brito; Rémi Langevin

Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines (1994)

  • Volume: 125, page 17-40
  • ISSN: 0987-6936

Abstract

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Analyzing and transcribing a sign language is a difficult task since the mode of expression - hand movements in a space located close to the body, complemented by attitudes and facial expressions - is a priori less sequential than speech. Our work aims to complete numerous previous attempts and uses in particular Stokoe’s system. Analysing the movement of a frame attached to the hand as the movement of a point in R 3 × S O ( 3 ) we manage to discretize in a natural way the most frequent gestures of the [LSCB] or LIBRAS, the Brazilian Cities Sign Language. This work allows a first classification of alphabetical type of LSCB signs. L. Ferreira Brito and her group are writing the first dictionnary [LSCB] → Portuguese using this system.

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Brito, Lucinda Ferreira, and Langevin, Rémi. "The sublexical structure of a sign language." Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines 125 (1994): 17-40. <http://eudml.org/doc/94451>.

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