<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>SignWriting List</div><div>July 7, 2008</div><div><br></div><div>Hello SW Listers!</div><div>Today I had a Skype conversation with Steve and Dianne Parkhurst, who are in North Dakota teaching courses at the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) summer courses.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's the web page for the whole SIL school:<br><br><a href="http://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics">http://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics</a><br><br>And here is a link to their "sign language related" courses:<br><br><a href="http://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics/courses.htm#SignedLanguages">http://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics/courses.htm#SignedLanguages</a></div><div><br></div><div>Dianne Parkhurst is teaching a course on the Phonetics of Signed Languages, and Dianne told me today that around 80 per cent of the course uses SignWriting. Right now, the students are learning to signwrite by hand, and later in the course, around the beginning of August, they will start to learn to use SignPuddle software. Dianne tells me that the students are enthusiastic and have expressed that they really enjoy learning and using SignWriting...</div><div><br></div><div>I looked on the above web page, and I believe this is the course that is using SignWriting...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#804000">Ling 455: Special Topics: Phonetics of Signed Languages</font></span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#804000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">2 semester hours *2008*</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#804000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The basic manual and non-manual elements that are used in the production of natural signed languages; terminology for describing them precisely; notational systems for writing signed languages, especially for use in research; extensive practice in recognizing, mimicking, transcribing, and reproducing signs in a variety of signed languages.</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">For new List members...</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The Parkhursts are linguists living in Spain. Two SignPuddles on the web have signs from Spain:</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Catalan Sign Language</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index1.html#sgn-ES-ct">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index1.html#sgn-ES-ct</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Spanish Sign Language (Madrid)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index1.html#sgn-ES">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index1.html#sgn-ES</a></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">The Parkhursts are the authors of this SignWriting textbook, which you can download free online:</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>SignWriting Lessons Book, English version:</b></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/spain/lecciones/">http://www.signwriting.org/spain/lecciones/</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>SignoEscritura: Spanish Version</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/spain/lecciones/SignoEscritura/index.html">http://www.signwriting.org/spain/lecciones/SignoEscritura/index.html</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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