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I expect the symbols in SignWriting are not analogous to symbols for
spoken words, especially in cases like the one for French morphemes
like -aux with its 3 letters that represent only one sound [o].
Children will learn the letter-sound distribution before they learn
combinations of letters that will make up one sound or other unusual
effects observed in written languages.<br>
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Has there been research about the processing of SignWriting symbols? I
know brain injury research has illustrated that characters of written
Chinese are not processed in the same way as
the sounds/letters of an alphabetic system such as English or French.
SignWriting symbols are more phonetic than Chinese characters I expect
(I'm not sure phonetic is the correct word to use here); but they may
also be less abstract than alphabetic systems. <br>
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Lots of research to be done for sure.<br>
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odeeodee<br>
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Andrée Gagnon wrote:<br>
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style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;">Dear SW members,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-CA">... French
hearing children in grade 1 learn to form the
regular plural of the nouns by adding an “ s”: chat-chats ( in
English, cat-cats). But, they cannot acquire the plural “aux”of
nouns ending in “al” in grade 1: cheval-chevaux ( in English
ox-oxen). It is only in grade 2 that the hearing children can acquire
appropriately the plural “ aux” of the nouns ending
“al”. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-CA"> As the
level of grades seems
important for deaf children to acquire the symbol of rotation, my
question is :
should it be in grade 2 or in grade 3? As far as I am conserned I do
not know.
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style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><font
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style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-CA">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-CA">André
Thibeault<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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