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Dear Valerie,
<br>It was good to hear from you. I'm so glad you are feeling better now
:))
<p>I'm sorry I haven't been in contact much with the list.... :O( I have
however been reading all the messages that come in, and I remember the
very interesting discussion about mouth-patterns in European sign languages.
I had been meaning to add that mouth-patterns occur frequently in Maltese
Sign Language. In fact when transcribing the data for my dissertation
(using signwriting) I didn't know how to transcribe mouth-patterns (which
were mainly mouth patterns derived from the spoken language) using signwriting.
What I did was write the words in a seperate column next to the signwriting.
This worked well when analysing the spoken component of Maltese Sign Language.
However it would be great to find a way of transcribing these mouth-patterns
using signwriting, because in doing so the mouth-patterns would truly appear
to be an integral part of the signing (although how could you show mouth-patterns
of more than 1 syllable??)
<p>Hope you all have a great summer (just hope it's not as hot where you
are as it is here- mamma mia :))
<br>Maria
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<blockquote TYPE=CITE><i>And last, regarding the mouthing and mouth gestures
needed in writing</i>
<br><i>the northern European signed languages, such as German Sign Language,</i>
<br><i>Swiss-German Sign Language, and possibly Norwegian Sign Language...I</i>
<br><i>would like to suggest that Ingvild, Siv and Stefan communicate with</i>
<br><i>each other on possible solutions. Stefan has already developed a
lot</i>
<br><i>of mouth movements written in SignWriting, based on the German spoken</i>
<br><i>language. And I know Siv wants to add more....so I hope you will</i>
<br><i>write to each other and try to work out some of the</i>
<br><i>questions....Meanwhile, I am writing a report on writing detailed</i>
<br><i>facial expressions. I hope to have that ready in the next couple
of</i>
<br><i>weeks. It will be included in the SignWriting Instruction Database
in</i>
<br><i>SignBank in September.</i></blockquote>
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