Non-dominant, one-handed signing

[Karlin, Ben]

Functional Signs: A new approach from simple to complex
By Harry Bornstein and I. King Jordan
Copyright 1984 PRO-ED, 8700 Shoal Creek Blvd., Austin, TX 78758.
They are online at http://www.proedinc.com/

Ben Karlin


>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Grushkin, Donald A. [mailto:grushkind at CSUS.EDU]
>  Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:27 AM
>  To: SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
>  Subject: Re: Non-dominant, one-handed signing
>
>
>  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)...
>  >
>  >
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