Request for Research Data

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 15, 2006

Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> I am doing some research related to SignWriting for my MA degree and I
> am wondering if any of you would be willing to help me out with
> gathering some data. Part of what I want to do is study the way that
> we compose and decompose SW to represent specific signs.
>
> 5 signs: easy to write in SW.


Hello Stuart!
Great to hear from you again...Your Master's Degree thesis sounds  
really interesting...

What is easy and what is hard, usually depends on a signwriter's  
skill...there are different perspectives...is this from the student's  
point of view? Or from a skilled signer's point of view?

When you ask "easy to write?"

do you mean the physical issues of writing by hand versus computer?

or do you mean what is easy to read? (no physical writing involved)  
just what is clear to read instantaneously?

or do you mean what is clean in the invention, with no exceptions, so  
it is easy to write because the writer has easy and consistent rules  
to follow?


Val ;-)


Valerie Sutton
Sutton at SignWriting.org

1. SignWriting
Read & Write Sign Languages
http://www.SignWriting.org

2. SignBank
Create Sign Language Databases
http://www.SignBank.org

3. SignPuddle
Create Sign Language Dictionaries
http://www.SignPuddle.org

4. SignText
Create Sign Language Documents
http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle/signtext

5. DanceWriting
Read & Write Dance Movement
http://www.DanceWriting.org

6. MovementWriting
Read & Write All Body Movement
http://www.MovementWriting.org

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