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Basic objects in natural categories
- E. Rosch, C. Mervis, Wayne D. Gray, D. M. Johnson, P. Boyes-Braem
- Mathematics
- Cognitive Psychology
- 1 July 1976
Abstract Categorizations which humans make of the concrete world are not arbitrary but highly determined. In taxonomies of concrete objects, there is one level of abstraction at which the most basic… Expand
The Hands are the Head of the Mouth
- P. Boyes-Braem, R. Sutton-Spence
- Medicine, Psychology
- 13 May 2002
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Preliminaries to a distinctive feature analysis of handshapes in American Sign Language
- H. Lane, P. Boyes-Braem, U. Bellugi
- Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology
- 1 April 1976
Abstract In this article we propose a set of 11 distinctive features for hand configurations (Dez) in the American Sign Language of the deaf. The model is based on the results of applying clustering… Expand
A multimedia bilingual database for the lexicon of Swiss German Sign Language
- P. Boyes-Braem
- Computer Science
- 1 November 2002
This multimedia database project is the first large-scale collection and description of the signs of Swiss German Sign Language (Deutschschweizerische Gebardensprache, DSGS). The aim of the database… Expand
Identifying and comparing semantic relations across signed and spoken languages
- Sarah Ebling, K. Cormier, J. Fenlon, P. Boyes-Braem, T. Johnston
- Computer Science
- 2013
Sign language text transcription and analyses using ‘Microsoft Excel’
- P. Boyes-Braem
- Computer Science
- 1 November 2002
This is a short explanation of how we have used the commercial software program ‘Microsoft Excel’ for transcriptions of Swiss German Sign Language monologues and conversations. Although the… Expand