NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the ...

Anthony Eagle Jr. is big on TikTok. He boasts over 850,000 followers, many of whom love the way he performs sign language renditions of songs. There’s just one problem — the sign language is ...

Sign-Speak is also exploring how its tools handle slang and emerging vocabulary, which present unique challenges for sign language translation. “If we don’t have a word, we tend to fingerspell it.

SpellRing is trained on 20,000 words in American Sign Language. ... (ASL) has long enabled real-time conversations for English-speaking people who are deaf and hard-of-hearing.

As cringe-inducing as that joke may be in English, it’s senseless in sign language. In order to embrace what makes ASL such an infinite space for wordplay, I had to leave behind my reliance on ...

In experimenting with the development of a new sign language, the vocabulary has been based on C. K. Ogden's ‘Basic English’ (850 words), but a much shorter sign vocabulary will suffice.