Toward the Study of Sign Language Coarticulation: Methodology Proposal

This article proposes a methodology to study coarticulation in sign language. Our aim is to provide information in sign language (SL) thanks to a displayed signing avatar performing SL predefined animations. Therefore, we explain the approach we have chosen to model coarticulation, and animate our avatar. We also propose a definition of what coarticulation is, based on an overview of the literature, and we present the linguistic basis our model will be build on. We explain the methodology we are setting up, based on corpus analysis, and our evaluation protocol. We are aware of the various implications our study will have on several aspects for the deaf community and the SL.