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Ingvild Kristine Roald Date: Thu May 27, 1999 3:27 pm Subject: Re: New SignWriter Features? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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New features? A possibility to make the rotations in several sizes is very much needed. In Norwegian Sign Language (NSL) a saucer, a small cake plate, a medium sized plate and a large serving plate are all signed by tracing a horizontal circle with the downwards index finger, but of various sizes. A small area, a largere area, a country, or the whole wide world, are similarily designed by the flat hand making the circular movement. A small ball (tennis), a large one (basket), a large one, a huge ballon... , all made by the flat hands starting on top, palms down, circling and turning until they meet at the bottom palms up. The sequetial finger closing is something NSL uses for ALL, starting with a 5-hand pointing left, palm down, circling outwards while turning and closing in from the small finger till it ends up in the original place, as a fist, palm up. (The size of the circle is dependent of how big the ALL group is...) Valerie and I have been discussing what to do when hands are neither palm down or palm to the side, but rather 45 degrees. In NSL the HOUSE is made by both hands pointing forwards, and then making the slope of the roof and then the walls. We have not discussed this sign, but the signs for BOAT and PLOW (for snow), which is a pair, both hands pointing 45 degrees forwards and finger tips meeting, and in BOAT the middle and the ringfinger's tips would touch, but in the PLOW the middle and the index finger's tips would touch. We talked about making the black part of the hands broader or slimmer, to denote this. I think that as the size of the printed signs get smaller, this will be complicated, and suggest another soultion: place the touch-star over / under the touching tips of the hands, for the two signs. The puffing cheek(s) are a neccesary part of NSL, to denote big things. But sometimes the puffing is moved to the lower lip. Could that be incorporated? (Valerie: You will see this when the driver is talking about his big car, in the video of NSL). To denote small things, the mouth is made small, and the tip of the tounge is just visible (on the video: the girl talking of the small sausages). The mouth and tounge is somewhat strained. To make things more complicated, if I was to say that something was just around the corner, the face would make this diminutive with accompanig air (and sometaimes sound), like 'pt'. And as I told you all before, in NSL mouthing borrowed from Norwegian is very much part of NSL.... - Wayne talked about staying in the dictionary. Did you mean the possibility to mark say ten words/ signs before pasting them into the document? Greetings to you all, Ingvild Ingvild Kristine Roald Institutt for Praktisk Pedagogikk Universitetet i Bergen N-5020 BERGEN Norway e-mail: UNIV: SCHOOL: PRIVATE: tel: +47 55 58 47 98 +47 55 11 86 00 +47 55 28 34 34 fax: +47 55 58 48 80 +47 55 11 86 01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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