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Stefan Woehrmann2 Date: Fri Apr 6, 2001 9:25 am Subject: Re: sign language processing and computational sign language processing | ||||||||
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Hi Themis, doing my SW exercises every day (he) I stumbled over this ... .... > On the other hand, SignWriting is easy to learn and use mostly > because it is iconographic. - What do you talk about ?? Well - you are right - there is one aspect of SW that is really easy to learn : R E A D I N G I mean - once you have been told that a certain SW symbol is a written representative of a movement with all its individuel aspects (handform, direction, tension, location ...) = you are willing to accept that . The next time you are confronted with this symbol you will remember this memorized code and will be able to read (to understand) this sign. Its fantastic to look at my first grade students or at my little son (3 years old) how easy they can identify soooo many different signs. Well they are able to read the whole sentence as a meaningfull entity. They accept the writing as a form of how you can express a question or an instruction ... But - this also happens, if the spelling of the signs is wrong ! One point that I ±> interested in is the difference of the two reading styles: The higher achievement level of reading SW you will expect among those readers who are fluent Signers and who are able to analyze every single element of the whole symbol. (The " CAR " competent analyzing Reader) The better you can do that, the better you have understood the principles and conventions about WRITING SW the better you will probably be able to read even completely new SW literature. My experience with all the learners I'm happy to comunicate with is that they are able to learn to read the symbols almost like flashcards -- soooo fast! But if they don ±² overcome the level to read the signs "only" like pictograms - they will get in trouble .. ;-( They will get confused or simply ignore the difference between similar symbols that differ only in one or two aspects - the more complex a symbol is the greater the chance to take a "new" sign for different one that has been introduced in the past. This should be an interesting question for more studies in the future Eh ? All the best Stefan ;-) - especially as a beginner. This happens | ||||||||
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