[PDF] Acquiring word class distinctions in American Sign Language PDF brentaricoppolajung-acquiring_word_class_distinctions_in_american_sign_language

In contrast, when used as classifier predicates, object and handling handshapes do vary with grammatical context for both morphological and syntactic reasons

40 ASL HANDSHAPES "A": with, aunt, sweetheart, practice, live "U" cute, uncle "Open A" girl, not, which, remember, tomorrow ,yesterday "V" stuck, see, either,

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A language of this type operates differently from other languages that are audio- vocal ASL uses certain parts of the body (gestural) to create “words” or signs that

[PDF] 9 Handshape in Sign Language Phonology - Chicago Language

of articulation, and handshape, based on the phonotactics of signed words in ASL (Brentari et al , forthcoming) These handshape phonotactics are explained in

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Handshape: L > Bent L Orientation: palm left Location: thumb on chin Movement: bend index finger down

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(Six of the handshapes occur in only 1 percent of all the Auslan signs in the Auslan dictionary) • The most obvious reasons for the differences in how much a

[PDF] Correlations between handshape and movement in sign languages

Study 2 is of signs in an ASL online dictionary whose movement path draws the shape of (part of) the signified entity Here both flat entities (effectively two-