<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>September 21, 2008</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 21, 2008, at 6:11 AM, MARIA AZZOPARDI wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I'm trying to figure out the exact mouth patterns for the signwriting<br>symbols.<br><br>Is there by any chance a list of the signwriting mouth patterns with the<br>corresponding phonetic alphabet (IPA) letters that match the signwriting<br>symbols? Or perhaps photos/illustrations of the mouth patterns produced by<br>the signer with the correspoinding signwriting symbols?<br><br>Many thanks,<br>Maria</div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>----------</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Maria and Stefan!</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your message above, Maria, and I am happy to see that Stefan has already answered you at length...</div><div><br></div><div>Let me try to explain it with English terminology...</div><div><br></div><div>If I make any mistakes, Stefan, please tell me...It would be great to get good terminology in English for your developments...</div><div><br></div><div>A few years back, I asked Stefan to find a name for his invention and we decided that in English, we would call it Woehrmann's SpeechWriting. In German, Stefan calls it Mundbildschrift.</div><div><br></div><div>Did you know about Woehrmann's SpeechWriting?</div><div><br></div><div>Stefan took the basic SignWriting mouth symbols, and then developed them further, inventing a system for writing the mouth patterns of German speech, using an extended set of symbols...it is very exciting because some of Stefan's students are actually learning to speak German words better, because of his amazing SpeechWriting development.</div><div><br></div><div>Stefan also differentiates between SpeechWriting, and Mouthing...the movements of the mouth while signing...when signers mouth the way a word would be said, while they are using Sign Language...I believe Stefan calls this Mundbilder in German....is this correct, Stefan?</div><div><br></div><div>And then there is a third set of mouth movements that are connected to native Sign Languages of the Deaf...that are not based on any spoken language...like "PAH" and other mouth positions we all know...based on the grammatical needs of sign languages...</div><div><br></div><div>So there are three kinds of writing the mouth:</div><div><br></div><div>1. SpeechWriting....or....Mundbildschrift in German</div><div><br></div><div>2. Mouthing.....or....Mundbilder in German</div><div><br></div><div>3. Sign Language mouth movements based on grammar....what is that in German?</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, no matter what..there are three kinds! ;-))</div><div><br></div><div>And number 2 and 3 above are in the ISWA...</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding more instruction for the ISWA symbols, including Facial Expressions, we have started a new place to learn the ISWA...it is still under construction, but you might want to look now...someday there will be photos or other illustrations to help you learn the symbols...</div><div><br></div><div>ISWA 2008 Symbol Lessons</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" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/">http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/iswa/</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" face="Arial" 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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">You can also access the above page from the Lessons area:</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" 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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">SignWriting Lessons</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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.SignWriting.org/lessons">http://www.SignWriting.org/lessons</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" face="Arial" 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" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Val ;-)</span></font></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>