Non-manual features: The right to indifference

Filhol, Michael | Hadjadj, Mohamed Nassime | Choisier, Annick

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2014 6th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel
Venue:: Reykjavik, Iceland
Date:: 31 May 2014
Pages:: 49–54
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC 4.0
sign-lang ID:: 14012

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Languages:: French Sign Language
Writing Systems:: AZee

Abstract

This paper discusses the way sign language can be described with a global account of the visual channel, not separating manual articulators in any way. In a first section section it shows that non-manuals are often either ignored in favour of manual focus, or included but given roles that are mostly different from the mainly hand-assigned lexical role. A second section describes the AZee model as a tool to describe Sign Language productions without assuming any separation, neither between articulators nor between grammatical roles. We conclude by giving a full AZee description for one of the several examples populating the paper.

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Michael Filhol, Mohamed Nassime Hadjadj, Annick Choisier. 2014. Non-manual features: The right to indifference. In Proceedings of the LREC2014 6th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel, pages 49–54, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{filhol:14012:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Filhol, Michael and Hadjadj, Mohamed Nassime and Choisier, Annick},
  title     = {Non-manual features: The right to indifference},
  pages     = {49--54},
  editor    = {Crasborn, Onno and Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2014} 6th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Beyond the Manual Channel},
  maintitle = {9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2014)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Reykjavik, Iceland},
  day       = {31},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2014},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/14012.pdf}
}