Non-dominant, one-handed signing

[Grushkin, Donald A.]

You might try checking out the book by King Jordan and someone else, I can't
remember who called "minimal signs" or something like that.  It was
basically a book of signs for severely handicapped deaf signers, like those
with partial paralysis showing ways to sign "minimally" but still be
understood.  I think it may be still listed in Gallaudet Press or Harris
Communications catalogs.

--Don Grushkin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Parvaz [mailto:dparvaz at UNM.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:38 AM
> To: SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
> Subject: Re: Non-dominant, one-handed signing
>
>
> >> 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)...
>
>