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Valerie Sutton Date: Sat Dec 29, 2001 4:04 pm Subject: MOUTH MOVEMENT: Writing Standards | |||||
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>>>uses "mouthing" very very often. In fact since I started to write >>>SW a year ago I had to learn that my first documents are >>>difficult to read because I neglected too many mouth-movements >>>that are associated with articulating voiceless German words CREATING STANDARDS FOR WRITING MOUTH MOVEMENT Thank you, Stefan, for this interesting message...People do mouth when they sign. And each mouthing gesture has some relation to the spoken language of the country. So I would assume that mouthing in Germany would look a little different than mouthing in Spain, or the USA, or in Japan... Sutton Movement Writing offers a general list of symbols for writing any facial expression. The list is "generic" or "neutral". It is not specific to any country. Then, people using SignWriting in different countries, "apply" those symbols to write the mouth gestures related to their language. I really love some of the standardizations you have developed in Germany, Stefan! Take a look at the attached GIF, everyone....As you can see, Stefan has chosen a single SW mouth symbol to represent the sound of "A", when people mouth in German...So instead of asking his students to decide which of 6 SW mouth symbols they would like to use, they all know that that specific symbol represents the "A" in German: | |||||
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