Fwd: phonology - ABSL

[Adam C Schembri]

I'm forwarding the message below from Wendy Sandler about Al-Sayyid  
Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL).

Adam
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Adam C Schembri, PhD
Project Director, British Sign Language Corpus Project
Deafness, Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre
University College London
49 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
United Kingdom
http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/team/adam_schembri.html
www.bslcorpusproject.org







Begin forwarded message:

> From: wendy sandler
> Date: 10 February 2008 09:55:57 GMT
> To: Adam C Schembri <a.schembri at ucl.ac.uk>
> Cc: Carol Padden, Mark Aronoff , Irit Meir
> Subject: phonology - ABSL

> .......

> I'm writing about the phonology or lack of it in ABSL -- we were  
> sent your mailing on SLLing (we don't subscribe). Feel free to post  
> the response that follows.
>
> The apparent lack of phonological structure we have noticed is based  
> not only on a lack of minimal pairs, but on a kind of variation in  
> the production of signs that we are not used to seeing in more  
> established sign languages, and on a lack of phonological processes  
> that systematically affect meaningless units.  We are aware that the  
> possibility that ABSL has not developed a phonological system is not  
> trivial, and we are working on several studies of different kinds to  
> investigate it further.  The problem raises interesting questions  
> about phonology, phonetics, variation, and data in sign language in  
> general, questions that have never been addressed.
>
> Best,
> Wendy
>
>
>
>
> Professor Wendy Sandler
> Director, Sign Language Research Lab
> Rabin Building
> University of Haifa
> 31905 Haifa
> Israel
> tel:  +972-4-824-9395
> fax: +972-4-824-9958
>
> http://sandlersignlab.haifa.ac.il/
>
> Department of English Language
>          and Literature
> University of Haifa
> 31905 Haifa
> Israel
>
>
>
>

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