Grammar Development for Sign Language Avatar-Based Synthesis
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Research into Sign Language (SL) generation from English text at the University of East Anglia has involved SL grammar development to support SL synthesis and visual realisation by an avatar (virtual signer) (Kennaway, 2001). To that end SLs must be treated as genuine natural languages worthy of academic study in their own right. They are the native languages of the pre-lingually deaf whose familiarity with the geographically prominent oral language is that of a second language learner. Thus for the prelingually deaf written text is much less useful than is commonly thought. We illustrate the utility of SL research for SL synthesis by a preliminary consideration of plurality and placement within a grammar for British Sign Language (BSL).
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