<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>October 11, 2011</div><div><br></div><div>Dear SignWriting List Members, and Joe -</div><div><br></div><div>Early in 2011, Joe Martin sent me some files on his research on SignWriting, to post on the web and on this List.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you, Joe, for sharing your work with us. Your files are now posted on the web here:</div><div><br></div><div>SignWriting in Linguistics</div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/linguistics/">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/linguistics/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Joe received his Masters Degree in Linguistics at the University of South Carolina in 2007.</div><div><br></div><div>Both the Abstract and the full thesis are now posted on the web for download. I also placed the Abstract inside the thesis.</div><div><br></div><div>Abstract</div><div>Writing and Signed Languages</div><div><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs7/sw0673_JoeMartin_MAThesis2007_Abstract.pdf">http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs7/sw0673_JoeMartin_MAThesis2007_Abstract.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Masters Degree Thesis</div><div>Writing and Signed Languages</div><div><a href="http://www.SignWriting.org/archive/docs6/sw0519-JoeMartin-MAThesis2007.pdf">http://www.SignWriting.org/archive/docs6/sw0519-JoeMartin-MAThesis2007.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Joe is a member of this List...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Arial; "><b>Writing and Signed Languages</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">by Joe C. Martin</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">in the Linguistics Program</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">College of Arts and Sciences</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">University of South Carolina</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">2007</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; "><b>ABSTRACT</b> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; ">The idea of a written form for signed languages has been controversial, and this paper presents a series of experiments designed to provide answers. The findings:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><br></div>
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Arial">writing a signed language is in fact possible, using SignWriting, but not using another script. (experiments 1 and 2)</li>
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Arial">a script for signed languages must be arranged in the nonlinear fashion employed by SignWriting and not in the linear manner of scripts for spoken language. (experiment three) </li>
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Arial">our brains process SignWriting in the same manner they process scripts for spoken language. (experiments 4 and 5) </li>
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</ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Arial; ">Conclusion: reading and writing is the same for both sign and speech, and SignWriting is just another writing system like any other.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><br><div>
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