nondominant handshapes

[Mark A. Mandel]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Rachel Channon wrote:

#Hi Mark, do you have a copy of this paper? It sounds rather similar to what
#I am proposing, and if so, it would be nice to cite you properly.  Rachel

We moved from the Boston area to Phila. about 6 months ago and are still
unpacking. I will watch for it!

-- Mark A. Mandel



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#Subject: Re: nondominant handshapes
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#On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Christopher Miller wrote:
#
##Here are a couple of exceptional non-dominant passive handshapes I can
##think of in ASL: # #CHOOSE with a /V/ handshape; BE-ABSENT/SKIP-CLASS with
#an open /8/ # #Neither of these seems to behave as a distinct morpheme at
#least #synchronically.
#
#I remember noticing at least SKIP-CLASS in grad school.
#
#Which recalls to me that I wrote a paper back then in which I tried to
#create an analysis of Battison Type 3 signs* in which the nondominant
#handshape was not completely specified, but rather resulted from other
#specifications, mostly Region of Contact and maybe one or two very basic
#handshape features. In that analysis, SKIP-CLASS would have had the
#nondominant specifications
#        Handshape: +open
#        ROC: fingertip
# which together with the movement and orientation specs would have
#effectively generated open-8 as an allophone of 5.
#
#-- Mark A. Mandel
#