Discriminant features and temporal structure of nonmanuals in American sign language

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Benitez Quiroz, C Fabian ^a   Gökgöz, Kadir ^b   Wilbur, Ronnie B ^b   Martinez, Aleix M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SIGN LANGUAGE; VISUAL STIMULATION; BOOK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TIME; UNITED STATES; VIDEORECORDING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MANUALS AS TOPIC; SIGN LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84895532360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086268     Document Type: Article

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