A nonmanual feature, also sometimes called nonmanual signal or sign language expression, are the features of sign languages that do not use the hands....

giving each a different meaning. Facial expression falls under the nonmanual feature component of phonology. These include "eyebrow height, eye gaze, mouthing...

organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features. Besides North America, dialects of ASL and ASL-based creoles...

finger indicate a female. As in other sign languages, they incorporate nonmanual markers with lexical, syntactic, discourse, and affective functions. These...

upper nonmanual ended up with occupations in the same level. Only 1.2% of sons with fathers who had farming occupations ended up in upper nonmanual occupations...

signs' parameters: handshape, movement, location, palm orientation, and nonmanual signal or marker. A minimal pair may exist in the signed language if the...

Reilly, Judy (2005). "How Faces Come to Serve Grammar: The Development of Nonmanual Morphology in American Sign Language". In Brenda Schick; Marc Marschack;...

a question word at the end of a clause TOM KICKED PETER WHY or using nonmanual features of a questioning expression. Verbs in Auslan which are depicting...

communication. The device also does not incorporate facial expressions and other nonmanual markers of sign languages, which may alter the actual interpretation from...

manual sign for the conjunction or, but the concept is usually signed nonmanually with a slight shoulder twist. English: I'll leave at 5 or 6 o'clock....

victim of its own success. From now on what matters is the productivity of nonmanual workers. [bolding added] -- Peter Drucker, The Rise of the Knowledge Society...

phonetic features of ASL such as handshape, movement, palm orientation and nonmanual markers to determine whether or not ASL poetry was able to rhyme as spoken...