Arthur L. Thompson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Arthur L. Thompson is involved.

Articles

Thompson, Arthur L., May Pik Yu Chan, Ping Hei Yeung and Youngah Do 2022 Structural markedness and depiction: The case of lower sequential predictability in cantonese ideophones The Mental Lexicon 17:2, pp. 300–324 | Article

Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory imagery and are hypothesized to be structurally marked, i.e., exhibiting unique structural properties. In this paper, “marked” is broadly used to mean phonologically marked (Dingemanse, 2021: Akita and Dingemanse, 2019). Using Cantonese ideophones… read more

Tan, Frank Li Hui, Aaron Wing Cheung Chik, Arthur L. Thompson, Jeff W. T. Yip and Youngah Do  Machine-learning errors in Hong Kong Sign Language handshape recognition reflect markedness patterns attested in learning Sign Language & Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article

Handshapes are a fundamental component of sign language phonology yet pose great difficulty for learners, who acquire handshapes according to physiological complexity, phonological features, and motor skills. Advances in machine-learning have led to handshape recognition models yielding high… read more