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Valerie Sutton Date: Sun Nov 25, 2001 10:36 pm Subject: Phonemes and Body Movement? | |
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>Yes, I see. Can I say that those body movements are the phonemes of the sign ? >And that it was the basic elements which connected the 2 signed languages >together? Am I confused? Leigh 8:) SignWriting List November 25, 2001 You know, Leigh, I don't know. I never invented a way to write phonemes...I just looked at body movement and wrote it visually, as it looks in real life...Then I was just practical - I met some Deaf people and showed them the symbols and asked them if they would like to try to write their languages - and then we just wrote it...that was all. It was not developed, in other words, by linguists, but instead by everyday people who just need a way to write. Then slowly, linguists became interested and look at it from a "phonemes" perspective...So you must ask the linguists on the List - I had thought that Karen van Hoek had explained that...but maybe Steve or Dianne Parkhurst, or Stuart Thiessen or Joe Martin or others, can explain it to you... Because of work deadlines, I am going to have to be off line for the next couple of days - I have to finish the Swiss signs so that I can then finish working on SignBank (beta test version)...and I am tired...and would like a little rest too - So I wish you all the best with your paper and I hope that you enjoy learning SignWriting! -- Val ;-) Valerie Sutton ....visit the... SignWritingSite https://www.SignWriting.org Read & Write Sign Languages SignBankSite https://www.SignBank.org Sign Language Dictionaries DanceWritingSite https://www.DanceWriting.org Read & Write Dance MovementWritingSite https://www.MovementWriting.org Read & Write Movement & Gesture Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA tel: 858-456-0098....fax: 858-456-0020 |
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