SignWriting taught in Sign Language Phonetics Course at SIL 2008

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
July 7, 2008

Hello SW Listers!
Today I had a Skype conversation with Steve and Dianne Parkhurst, who  
are in North Dakota teaching courses at the Summer Institute of  
Linguistics (SIL) summer courses.

Here's the web page for the whole SIL school:

http://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics

And here is a link to their "sign language related" courses:

http://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics/courses.htm#SignedLanguages

Dianne Parkhurst is teaching a course on the Phonetics of Signed  
Languages, and Dianne told me today that around 80 per cent of the  
course uses SignWriting. Right now, the students are learning to  
signwrite by hand, and later in the course, around the beginning of  
August, they will start to learn to use SignPuddle software. Dianne  
tells me that the students are enthusiastic and have expressed that  
they really enjoy learning and using SignWriting...

I looked on the above web page, and I believe this is the course that  
is using SignWriting...


Ling 455: Special Topics: Phonetics of Signed Languages
2 semester hours *2008*
The basic manual and non-manual elements that are used in the  
production of natural signed languages; terminology for describing  
them precisely; notational systems for writing signed languages,  
especially for use in research; extensive practice in recognizing,  
mimicking, transcribing, and reproducing signs in a variety of signed  
languages.



For new List members...

The Parkhursts are linguists living in Spain. Two SignPuddles on the  
web have signs from Spain:

Catalan Sign Language
http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index1.html#sgn-ES-ct

Spanish Sign Language (Madrid)
http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index1.html#sgn-ES


The Parkhursts are the authors of this SignWriting textbook, which you  
can download free online:

SignWriting Lessons Book, English version:
http://www.signwriting.org/spain/lecciones/

SignoEscritura: Spanish Version
http://www.signwriting.org/spain/lecciones/SignoEscritura/index.html

Val ;-)


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