Non-dominant, one-handed signing

[Dan Parvaz]

>> hand. Could you think of a way to communicate with only one hand for
>> sign?

Hm. Besides fancied descriptions from _Clan of the Cave Bear?_ :-)

Brentari (1998:265) gives an overview of the literature on two-handed
signs which can be signed with one hand ("Weak Drop"), and gives an OT
account of these signs in her model. For instance, Padden and
Pearlmutter point out that signs with alternating movement (like
MALAYSIA)...

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.... don't take well to Weak Drop. At any rate, I've met native signers
who suffer paralysis on one side of their bodies and still manage to
sign perfectly well, albeit with some adjustment.

As for the "just plain language" part of the problem, Poisner, Bellugi
and Klima (1991) "Brain Function for Language: Perspectives from another
modality" is a good starting point on the language of signers with
various kinds of hemispheric lesions (to the psycholinguists on the
list: anything more up-to-date on this?).

Cheers,

Dan.