<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The fastest way to do that is to look at "symbol frequency" in any of the SignPuddles. This would give you the current research on the minimal pairs of a language. For example, one of the earlier publications of LIBRAS had determined a certain number of handshapes (around 96), then people began putting in the variants from Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Rio Grande de Sul and the number expanded. Each day we've gotten a few more handshapes. When I was there in 2000, there were two handshapes, for example, using the ring finger and the thumb in contact, "droga" and "noiva", which depend on where the thumb is placed. <VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR><BR style="RIGHT: auto" class=yui-cursor></SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> MARIA GALEA <maria.azzopardi@UM.EDU.MT><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> SW-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, July 27, 2012 11:34 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> An alphabet for a specific sign language from the ISWA 2010<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>Dear all,<BR><BR>Me again with one more question..<BR><BR>Has anyone out there studied the alphabet of his/her sign language- that<BR>is has anyone derived a smaller amount of symbols from the ISWA 2010, as<BR>the significant
symbols (an alphabet) for writing a specific language e.g.<BR>ASL, BSL, Norwegian Sign Language, German sign language etc?<BR><BR>If you know of any such work could you direct me to it please.<BR><BR>If you have carried it out would love to include and refer to your work in<BR>my dissertation.<BR><BR>Once again I truly appreciate ANY feedback whatsoever,<BR><BR>Thanks<BR>Maria<BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>