Query from a colleague

[Fischer Susan]

A non-sign linguist asks for citations or intuitions about how signers talk to themselves in their heads. For example, do they visualize themselves or someone else?  Do they see their hands from their normal perspective?  My own initial reaction would be that there's some subliminal manual (or other) tension that could be measured much as lips show some tension when users of spoken language talk to themselves.  Might there be individual variation? (such variation is under-studied in the case of spoken language).  I will be happy to post a summary of responses.

Susan D. Fischer
Susan.Fischer at rit.edu

Center for Research on Language
UCSD



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