The thousands of languages spoken throughout the world draw on many of the same fundamental linguistic abilities and reflect universal aspects of how humans categorize events. Some aspects of language ...

How great that hearing people are learning sign language (15 January, p 27). How sad that the signs aren’t the same all over the world. If legend is correct, the early peoples of the Americas had ...

Post written by François Grosjean. All language scientists have a wow moment in their profession. Mine was when I was introduced to sign language and to the world of the Deaf. I was simply overwhelmed ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

American Sign Language (ASL) is the fourth most-studied foreign language on U.S. college campuses. ASL is a visual language that involves the precise use of the hands, body, and facial expression to ...

To ensure information accessibility through sign language, we have been researching technologies for producing video images of sign language using CG (hereinafter referred to as “sign language CG”).

More than 7,100 languages exist in the world, but fewer than ten dominate the Internet. That gap is quickly becoming the next great digital divide. We’ve brought more than 5.35 billion people online, ...