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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Sep 2, 1999 11:41 pm Subject: Re: SignWriting principles | |
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>A transposition is when you perceive the elements of the text in a reversed >or mixed up order. > >Obviously, if you get the elements in the wrong order, your comprehension of >the message can be delayed or entirely disrupted. > >--Don Grushkin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi Don - Thanks for explaining what a transposition is :-) So I believe I understand your question as being...When people read SignWriting, do they sometimes mistakenly transpose symbols? And if they don't, then your assumption is that SignWriting perhaps is not phonetic or phonemic...Please forgive me if I have misunderstood your point.. If that is your point, then my answer is this: SignWriting is definitely phonetic/phonemic, and is not logographic. Although I have zero research on whether people "transpose" SW symbols or not, I suspect they do occasionally. Once a person becomes fluent in reading SignWriting it is quite similar to becoming fluent in reading a spoken language written with the Roman alphabet. Signs, like words, become a collected unit of "pieces" and the brain starts memorizes each collection of pieces. They become "standardized" from constant repetition. Sometimes some signs look quite close to each other - similar handshapes - maybe only the movement changes or whatever - and when two signs are written with similar symbols, but only slightly differently....just like words, they can be mis-read. Valerie ;-) |
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