Perception study -- ASL vs. Gestures

[Adam Frost]

I suspect that Adam is referring to what some people would call "universal gestures" that are generally known regardless of knowing different languages. Some examples are thumbs up and A-ok. 

Adam
The other one ;-)

On Apr 23, 2012, at 10:43 AM, "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU> wrote:

> Adam,
> What do you mean by "emblems"? Things like "come here", "stop", "hi", "be quiet"? Group membership or other (semi-)secret signs in the non-SL sense of "(secret) sign", such as gang or lodge recognition signals? 
> Best,
> Mark Mandel
> 
> 
> 
> On 12.04.20, at 8:52 PM, Adam Schembri wrote:
> 
>> Don,
>> What do you mean by 'gestures'? Co-speech gesture? Emblems? Mime?
>> Cheers,
>> Adam Schembri
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 21/04/12 1:48 , "Grushkin, Donald A" <grushkind at CSUS.EDU> wrote:
>> 
>>> Has there ever been a study investigating whether nonsigners with no
>>> exposure to ASL or other signed languages can detect the difference
>>> between gestures and natural signed languages such as ASL?  I seem to
>>> think I did come across something like that once, but cannot rememmber
>>> where or who, if it's not a figment of my imagination.
>>> 
>>> --Don Grushkin
>>> ________________________________________
>>> 
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