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"Angus B. Grieve-Smith" Date: Thu Jan 14, 1999 3:10 am Subject: Re: Notation Systems | ||||||||||||||||
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On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Susanne Bentele wrote: > I know, I know, I am sure that, as a list dealing with signs and > writing, you must have had the following question a squillion times > before... Actually, no. This list was set up for discussion of SignWriting specifically. It would be up to the list owner, Valerie Sutton, whether or not to extend the list to comparative discussion of writing systems for sign. > Has anyone compared different notation systems for signed languages as > to different purposes for different systems? I mean, for example, > SignWriting is obviously used to actually write things down for people > to read. HamNoSys on the other hand, and other systems too, are aimed > more at the linguistic side of the language. Its main purpose is to > transcribe signs in order to analyse them. Chris Miller has a good comparison of writing systems in his Autumn 94 Signpost article, "A Note on Notation." You have back issues of Signpost in Hamburg, right? -Angus B. Grieve-Smith Linguistics Department The University of New Mexico | ||||||||||||||||
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