nondominant handshapes

[Mark A. Mandel]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Ingvild Roald wrote:

#>> From the non-linguist in Norway again: There are a number of signs, some
#>> of wich are well-established, that uses the L handshape for the
#>> non-dominat hand. They are AUDIOGRAM, STATISTICS,  and several more
#>> mathematical and special signs.
#
#What I know is that at least the AUDIOGRAM sign was well established when
#signing was still not used in education, that is, not even as total
#communication. STATISTICS may have been coined by the 'Correct Norwegian
#Sign Language' committee of the Norwegian Deaf Association in the early
#1970s. The others may have been coined by non-native signers in an
#educational setting.

Do they use the L hsh as a classifier for the axes of a graph?

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania