From 9104412952180777165a2d1367439928275990bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amit Moryossef Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:19:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] =?UTF-8?q?Add=20Mart=C3=ADnez-Guevara=20&=20Curiel=20?= =?UTF-8?q?(2024)=20on=20quantitative=20hand=20location=20analysis?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cites the SignLang 2024 paper showing that signers organize signing space into a Zipfian spatial hierarchy, more cohesive than non-linguistic gestures, in the Phonology section. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) --- src/index.md | 1 + src/references.bib | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/index.md b/src/index.md index b7316d2..122157c 100644 --- a/src/index.md +++ b/src/index.md @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ palm orientation, placement, contact, path movement, local movement, as well as non-manual features including eye aperture, head movement, and torso positioning [@liddell1989american;@johnson2011toward;@brentari2011sign;@sandler2012phonological]. Not all possible phonemes are realized in both signed and spoken languages, and inventories of two languages' phonemes/features may not overlap completely. Different languages are also subject to rules for the allowed combinations of features. +Quantitative analyses of hand locations across BSL, NGT, and LSM further reveal that signers organize the signing space into a Zipfian spatial hierarchy, concentrating articulation in cohesive regions more systematically than non-linguistic gesturers [@martinez-guevara-curiel-2024-quantitative]. ###### Simultaneity {-} Though an ASL sign takes about twice as long to produce than an English word, diff --git a/src/references.bib b/src/references.bib index 044e376..4ffa4c5 100644 --- a/src/references.bib +++ b/src/references.bib @@ -4757,6 +4757,12 @@ @inproceedings{lascar-etal-2024-annotation Gouiff{\`e}s, Mich{\`e}le and Braffort, Annelies and Danet, Claire", +} + +@inproceedings{martinez-guevara-curiel-2024-quantitative, + title = "Quantitative Analysis of Hand Locations in both Sign Language and Non-linguistic Gesture Videos", + author = "Mart{\'i}nez-Guevara, Niels and + Curiel, Arturo", editor = "Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and @@ -4771,3 +4777,7 @@ @inproceedings{lascar-etal-2024-annotation url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.signlang-1.22/", pages = "204--212" } + + url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.signlang-1.25/", + pages = "225--234" +} From 6f7c87cbab06f6fa48a3d7afb25cbc65acdefec9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: AmitMY Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:38:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Move martinez-guevara entry to Linguistic Analysis section (review feedback) --- src/index.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/index.md b/src/index.md index 122157c..d4e483d 100644 --- a/src/index.md +++ b/src/index.md @@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ palm orientation, placement, contact, path movement, local movement, as well as non-manual features including eye aperture, head movement, and torso positioning [@liddell1989american;@johnson2011toward;@brentari2011sign;@sandler2012phonological]. Not all possible phonemes are realized in both signed and spoken languages, and inventories of two languages' phonemes/features may not overlap completely. Different languages are also subject to rules for the allowed combinations of features. -Quantitative analyses of hand locations across BSL, NGT, and LSM further reveal that signers organize the signing space into a Zipfian spatial hierarchy, concentrating articulation in cohesive regions more systematically than non-linguistic gesturers [@martinez-guevara-curiel-2024-quantitative]. ###### Simultaneity {-} Though an ASL sign takes about twice as long to produce than an English word, @@ -1092,6 +1091,8 @@ This sub-area covers experimental studies of sign language structure that use co @gavrilescu-etal-2024-content compared corpus, elicitation, and fieldwork methods across Greek, French, and Swedish Sign Languages to characterize the distribution of wh-signs and their non-manual markers. +@martinez-guevara-curiel-2024-quantitative analyse hand locations across BSL, NGT, and LSM and find that signers organize the signing space into a Zipfian spatial hierarchy, concentrating articulation in cohesive regions more systematically than non-linguistic gesturers. + ## Annotation Tools ##### ELAN - EUDICO Linguistic Annotator