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Using Design Principles to Consider Representation of the Hand in Some Notation Systems
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Hochgesang, Julie A. – Sign Language Studies, 2014
Linguists have long recognized the descriptive limitations of Stokoe notation, currently the most commonly used system for phonetic or phonological transcription, but continue using it because of its widespread influence (e.g., Siedlecki and Bonvillian, 2000). With the emergence of newer notation systems, the field will benefit from a discussion…
Descriptors: Phonetic Transcription, Phonology, Best Practices, Manual Communication
Pinky Extension as a Phonestheme in Mongolian Sign Language
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Healy, Christina – Sign Language Studies, 2011
Mongolian Sign Language (MSL) is a visual-gestural language that developed from multiple languages interacting as a result of both geographic proximity and political relations and of the natural development of a communication system by deaf community members. Similar to the phonological systems of other signed languages, MSL combines handshapes,…
Descriptors: Phonology, Morphemes, Sign Language, Deafness
Natural Constraints in Sign Language Phonology: Data from Anatomy.
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Mandel, Mark A. – Sign Language Studies, 1979
Presents three sets of data (signs from the "Dictionary of ASL," 1976; loan signs; and case histories of specific signs) that demonstrate the involvement of the "knuckle-wrist connection" with American Sign Language phonology. (AM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Anatomy, Body Language, Deafness
Two-to-One It Happens: Dynamic Phonology in Two Sign Languages
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Woodward, James; DeSantis, Susan – Sign Language Studies, 1977
The historically attested change of two-handed signs on the face to one-handed variants, which occurs in two historically related sign languages, French Sign Language and American Sign Language, is used to test variation theory. The results of the study support viewing languages in a dynamic framework. (AMH)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness, Language Acquisition
The Acquisition of American Sign Language Hand Configurations
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McIntire, Marina – Sign Language Studies, 1977
Examination of American Sign Language--produced by a deaf child acquiring the language from deaf parents, and videotaped at age 13, 15, 18, and 21 months--shows conformity to many of the phonological rules operative for all languages. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Deafness, Handicapped Children
On Borogroves and Code Books.
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Stokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 1987
Attempts to prove that users of American Sign Language (ASL) do perform within a closed system of manual and nonmanual sign production features (phonemes and distinctive features). Deaf signers are quite capable of creating nonsense words as well as communicating with signers of other languages through pantomime and other paralinguistic features.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills
The Effect of Visual Metaphor Cueing on Recall of Phonologically Similar Signs.
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Fuller, Donald R.; Wilbur, Ronnie B. – Sign Language Studies, 1987
A review of "Sign Languages Used by Deaf People, and Psycholinguistics: A Critical Evaluation" (A. Van Uden, 1986), a book "denying that ...there is any such thing as a sign language," points out that a sign language's perceived lack of phonological and morphological rules is a more social than linguistic problem. (CB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Figurative Language, Grammatical Acceptability, Hearing Impairments