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Ingvild Roald Date: Sun Jul 2, 2000 12:06 pm Subject: Re: wh-questions | |
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This a special question, and in Norwegian SL it also has the raised eybrows, sort of polite. Other wh-questions are asked with the brows down Ingvild >From: Joe Martin >Reply-To: SignWriting List >To: SignWriting List >Subject: wh-questions >Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:55:02 -0700 > >Message 2748 in the archives has a gif of the ASL sentence meaning >"what is your name" written in the signWriting script. It shows raised >eyebrows accompanying the sentence. I am confused by this. > >ASL--and I believe other signed Languages as well---raises the eyebrows to >indicate a question that can be answered with a Yes or No >However for other types of questions--ones that must be answered by giving >information--the brows are lowered rather than raised. (in English we call >these Wh-questions) > So the rule is; Yes-No--brows up; Wh--brows down. > >For this sentence then the brows should be down, not up as shown. I can >kind of see it being signed either way, I guess. I have wondered what >other people think about this. > > _______________________________________ >Joe Martin, Plain Old Ordinary Student >Top Left Corner USA |
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