Quote: mimetic depiction in American Sign Language is like morphology in spoken languages; small number of discrete components and combinations

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one must consider two domains in ASL [American Sign Language]. First, there is what I will call the frozen lexicon. … learned early by adults and children acquiring ASL, … Second, there is another portion of the language … mime." These signs seem to reflect aspects of … handshapes through space in front of the signer … [p. 465] In particular, our [Newport & Supalla] analyses suggest that … Language are not at all analogue in nature; … of discrete components, which mark familiar distinctions of …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: American Sign Language has a standardized lexicon of signs and a sign mime of handshapes, movements, and positions

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