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This paper describes an innovative approach to training sign language interpreters, through a program established at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. The course is innovative because sign language and spoken language... more
These guidelines explain and exemplify the annotations found in the Auslan Corpus. This is the first revision of these guidelines since November 2019. The main changes are: - Correction to text and expression throughout - Removal... more
This study investigates the conventionalization of mouth actions in Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Signed languages were once thought of as simply manual languages because the hands produce the signs which individually and in groups... more
This study investigates clause constructions in Auslan. It looks at the alignment of constituent semantic role with constituent position and order in clauses, changes in the morphology of signs according to position and/or role, and the... more
This study investigates the conventionalization of mouth actions in signed languages. Signed languages were once thought of as simply manual languages because the hands produce the signs which individually and in groups are the symbolic... more
Social interaction, and the attendant negotiation of meaning, is of prime importance for developing second language (L2) skills. Yet how learners go about building L2 social networks-and why some have more success than others in doing... more