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size=3>Hi everyone!</FONT></P>
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size=3>I am Karen Alkoby.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am the
one who came up with an idea of “DePaul ASL Synthesizer Project” – </FONT><A
href="http://asl.cs.depaul.edu/"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://asl.cs.depaul.edu</FONT></A><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We have about 15-20 team members working on this project.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All of them are hearing except me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, I just had found a deaf master
student and encourage him to be on my team.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The more deaf participants the
better it will be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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face="Times New Roman">I would like some citations or any of documents that
pertains fingerspelling.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Paula
still is very awkward with her fingerspelling skills.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are studying more on
handshapes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We realized that there
are several ways of using handshape that depends on what letter follows next
or/and what letter precedes handshape in order to get better flow of
fingerspelling.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman">For example:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</SPAN>There may be closed, half-closed, and flat handshape for “N”
handshape.</FONT></FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>If a person spells “Don”, the “N” would be in
closed position.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If the person
spells “Ben”, the “N” handshape would be in half-closed position.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If the person spells “Anna”, the
“N” would be in flat “N” handshape.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">I hope you understand what I am talking about.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would be great if you know any of the
documents, protocols or citations that I am looking for.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Thanks,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Karen Alkoby</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>karenasl@rcnchicago.com</FONT></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>