Head tilt

Valerie Sutton signwriting at MAC.COM
Fri Jul 6 22:55:53 UTC 2007


Yes, that is correct ;-)

Val ;-)


On Jul 6, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Adam Frost wrote:

> I was wondering about those symbols. So the ones on the noes means  
> static while the ones above the head means that it moves to the tilt?
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> Adam
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> On 7/6/07, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com> wrote: SignWriting  
> List
> July 6, 2007
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> On Jul 6, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
> > I have a question about head movements. I know that the  arrows on
> > top of the head means that the head moves as if the nose is drawing
> > the arrow. The way that Stefan taught me a while ago is that the
> > double stem move the head to look side to side, up and down, while
> > the single arrows move the head as if doing an Egyptian dance side
> > to side, and forward and back without moving the face from looking
> > forward. How do you write it if the head is tilting side to side?
> > Adam
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> Hello Adam ;-)
> Thanks for this question and Stefan of course taught you correctly!
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> The Head Movement with the double-stemmed arrows shows the direction
> of the nose moving.
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> The Head Movement with the single-stemmed arrows shows the neck
> projecting the head in that direction, like forward, or side to side
> in Egyptian dancing. We do use the single lined arrow for Head
> Movements in writing ASL for questions...the head is projected
> forward and that takes a single-stemmed arrow...
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> One way to show a tilt of the head is this way, which really means
> that the nose is directed up in the direction of the arrow. So in
> this example the nose is looking up toward the upper left corner,
> which automatically tilts the head a little back and side-left:
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> Another way to show a Head Tilt, is with the position of the Tilting
> Nose. This is an exact side tilt. The nose is straight forward. The
> movement is from the neck.
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> and a third way is Tilting Head Movement symbols, showing the movment
> of one Tilt, two tilts in the same direction, three tilts in the same
> direction, and tilts back and forth...
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