To what extent does human cognition influence the structure of human language? Recent experiments using elicited pantomime suggest that the prevalence of Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order across the world's languages may arise in part because SOV order is most compatible with how we conceptually represent transitive events (Goldin-Meadow, So, Özyürek, & Mylander, 2008). However, this raises the q...

The presented article explains an innovating method to process a computer-aided segmentation of sign language sentences. After having tracked the signers hands in a video, the traitment consists in detecting motion attributes such as repetition or symmetries. Those observations are taken into account to process a gesture segmentation. We also discuss about the evaluation of such a segmentation.

1. MOTIVATION There is strong support for single sign-on, using methods such as Facebook, Google, or Amazon for providing thirdparty sign-on to websites [3]. While it is practical to the user, it carries a large risk: a compromise of the account credentials can lead to a severe impact on the websites the user authenticates to, and unwanted linkages between intentionally separated social roles, ...

A survey of reports of sign order from 42 sign languages leads to a handful of generalizations. Two accounts emerge, one amodal and the other modal. We argue that universal pressures are at work with respect to some generalizations, but that pressure from the visual modality is at work with respect to others. Together, these pressures conspire to make all sign languages order their major consti...

For a portable digital device, power consumption is crucial under the constraint of limited battery life. Switching activity in CMOS circuits contributes to a significant amount of power consumption. Efforts are made in every design level to help hardware reduce the switching activity required to execute the program. In this paper, we study the problem of reducing power consumption arising from...

In this paper the single cycle T-functions are studied. Making use of the explicit formulas of sum and product of 2-adic integers, we present the necessary and sufficient conditions on the generalized polynomial p̃(x) = a0⊕a1x + ⊕ · · · + ⊕adx d(mod2n) being a single cycle T-function. Furthermore, for any given generalized polynomial, we can deduce some expressions about its coefficients by whic...

Many sign languages display crosslinguistic consistencies in the use of two iconic aspects of handshape, handshape type and finger group complexity. Handshape type is used systematically in form-meaning pairings (morphology): Handling handshapes (Handling-HSs), representing how objects are handled, tend to be used to express events with an agent ("hand-as-hand" iconicity), and Object handshapes...

What supports deaf signers advantage over nonsigners on visuospatial short-term memory (STM) tasks is still a matter of debate. We compared the performance of 18 deaf Italian Sign Language (LIS) users with that of a matched group of Italian hearing nonsigners in three different tasks: two versions of the Corsi Block test, namely span forward and span backward, and the Visual Pattern Test (VPT)....

In this article, we begin with a summary of the evidence for perceptual narrowing for various aspects of language (e.g., vowel and consonant contrasts, tone languages, visual language, sign language) and of faces (e.g., own species, own race). We then consider possible reasons for the apparent differences in the timing of narrowing (e.g., apparently earlier for own race than for own species). T...

Early phonological analyses of sign languages proposed that a sign consists of feature values for four parameters: handshape, orientation of the hand in space (e.g. palm up, fingers away from the body), place of articulation (or location), and movement (features such as shape, repeated, and alternating). This paper deals with what has traditionally been called handshape (Stokoe 1978). In referi...