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<DIV><<<I am out of practice and not at all sure of this, but I recall at least some <BR>signers distinguishing male and female initialized 'Cousin' in this way, which <BR>spoken/written French does (and with the same letter) but not English.>>></DIV>
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<DIV>As a certified interpreter of ASL and a budding linguist, I can confirm that this is indeed correct. <BR></DIV>
<DIV class=signature id=signature>--<BR>Kim Carlton Diez, BA, CI & CT <BR><BR>What lies behind us and what lies <BR>before us are tiny matters <BR>compared to what lies within us. <BR>Ralph Waldo Emerson </DIV><!--<BR>-->
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message from "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel@ldc.upenn.edu>: -------------- <BR><BR><BR>> You may already be familiar with ASL (American Sign Language) kinship terms, <BR>> but no one has mentioned them in this thread. <BR>> <BR>> In ASL, the locations upper face (forehead to temple) and side or lower face <BR>> (cheek to chin) are morphemes for male and female respectively, originally <BR>> derived from the (Old French SL) signs for 'boy' and 'girl'. In addition to the <BR>> signs for boy, girl, man, and woman, these locations are the sole markers of sex <BR>> in the following pairs of kinship terms: <BR>> <BR>> father : mother <BR>> grandfather : grandmother (& "great-...") <BR>> son : daughter (< BOY/GIRL + BABY) <BR>> brother : sister (< BOY/GIRL + SAME) <BR>> <BR>> They are also used with the initialized terms <BR>> <BR>> Uncle : Aunt <BR>> <BR>> I am out of practice and not at all sure of this, but I recall at least some <BR>> signers distinguishing male and female initialized 'Cousin' in this way, which <BR>> spoken/written French does (and with the same letter) but not English. <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -- Mark A. Mandel <BR>> Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> SLLING-L mailing list <BR>> SLLING-L@majordomo.valenciacc.edu <BR>> http://majordomo.valenciacc.edu/mailman/listinfo/slling-l <BR>> </BLOCKQUOTE>
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