News tagged with sign language
Deaf children use hands to invent own way of communicating
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Deaf children are able to develop a language-like gesture system by making up hand signs and using homemade systems to increase their communication as they grow, just as children with conventional spoken language, research ...
Videophone program for deaf is questioned
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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Capt. Kirk and his unforgettable "Beam me up, Scotty" introduced a generation to the concept of videophones on the 1960s drama series "Star Trek." The phones are now a reality - for more than 100,000 deaf people.
Sign language over a mobile phone
Aug 22, 2008 |
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A group at the University of Washington has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone. UW engineers got the phones working together this ...
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Sign language cell phone service created
Mar 06, 2007 |
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The world's first sign language dictionary available from a mobile phone has been launched by the University of Bristol's Centre for Deaf Studies.
Expressing comparisons is possible even without language, researchers find
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Making comparisons between objects, like comparing a tiger to a cat, is elemental in the development of a child’s ability to grasp the concept of categories.
Zoologist who raised Koko dies
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Oct 26, 2007 |
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Ronald Reuther, a zoologist who helped raise the first gorilla to use human sign language, has died in California at the age of 77.
Sign language interpreters at high ergonomic risk
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Sign language interpreting is one of the highest-risk professions for ergonomic injury, according to a new study conducted by Rochester Institute of Technology. The research indicates that interpreting causes more physical ...
'Deaf by God' tried in Old Bailey records
May 05, 2008 |
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Deaf people on trial were granted the right to an interpreter as early as 1725, according to Old Bailey records examined by UCL (University College London) scientists. The use of family and friends to interpret court proceedings ...
When using gestures, rules of grammar remain the same
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 30, 2008 |
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The mind apparently has a consistent way of ordering an event that defies the order in which subjects, verbs, and objects typically appear in languages, according to research at the University of Chicago.
No easy answers in evolution of human language
Feb 17, 2008 |
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The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says Robert Berwick, professor of computational linguistics at MIT.
Study: Grammar ability hardwired in humans
Feb 07, 2006 |
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University of Rochester scientists studying why characteristics of grammar are found in all languages say the use of grammar is hardwired in our brains.
Biologists find birdsong of isolates reverts to norm over several generations (w/Audio)
May 03, 2009 |
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In an experiment that points to a role for genetics in the development of culture, biologists at The City College of New York (CCNY) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have discovered that zebra finches raised in isolation ...
Words, gestures are translated by same brain regions, says new research
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Your ability to make sense of Groucho's words and Harpo's pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication ...
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