Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Verb Inflection(also: Sign Language Verb Inflection, Directional Verbs)
- In sign languages, verb inflection refers to the modification of a verb sign's movement path, speed, or direction to encode grammatical information such as subject, object, number, and aspect. Unlike spoken languages where inflection typically involves changes to word endings,…
- Visual Language(also: Visuo-Gestural Language)
- A language that uses the visual-gestural modality for communication, as opposed to the auditory-vocal modality of spoken languages. Sign languages are visual languages that encode information through hand shapes, movements, spatial relationships, facial expressions, and body…
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