[sw-l] Parkhurst phrase symbols

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
March 13, 2005

Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> Wonderful!  Thanks!  :)
> Do you find it makes a difference if you connect the lines or don't
> connect the lines but use them like brackets [ ... ]

Hi Stuart and Everyone -
Look at this diagram below. I went into SignMaker and constructed three
lines that are used in our writing system:

1. Unit-Connecting LIne
2. Smooth Connecting Line
3. Time Acceleration Lines

1. The Unit Connecting LIne has been used by the Parkhursts in Madrid,
to write the influence of facial expressions on phrases, I believe, but
only when writing horiztonally. Then, Dr. Penny Boyes Bream applied a
similar theory to writing in vertical columns, using the Unit
Connecting LIne to show the influence of one facial expression on a
series of signs...This was published in the German-Swiss Sign Language
books Noah and David and Goliath, written in SignWriting and published
- they are beautiful books!!

2. The Smooth Connecting LIne has been used mostly in DanceWriting
under the 5-lined staff, but one group used it for SignWriting...the
National Technical Institute for the Deaf's pulbications on technical
signs uses the Smooth Connecting LIne under a group of illustrations...

3. And the Time Acceleration is placed above the sentence to show
timing...

To answer your question about using only the side brackets and not
bother to connect them?...We have never done that, but it is worth a
try! If it works for you, show us a sample....

One precaution...Curved Parentheses around an entire sign means the
entire sign is seen from the back...so if you do  not connect the
brackets, be sure to make them right-angle straight-lined brakets, and
not curved...Val ;-)


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