In sign languages, handshape, or dez, refers to the distinctive configurations that the hands take as they are used to form words. In Stokoe terminology...

extremely common type of variation is between the handshapes /1/, /L/, and /5/ in signs with one handshape. There is also a distinct variety of ASL used by...

the bodily function or the fecal matter. The back of dominant open b-handshape flipped out under chin literally means "so what?" Using a middle finger...

addition, the dez (handshape) symbols below may be used to indicate that the location is the passive hand in a specific shape. Given a handshape (dez) ⟨D⟩,*...

of movement. Handshape—paralleling consonants, nine basic handshapes can be rounded or unrounded to form a total of 18 distinct handshapes. Referent—numbering...

to a morphological system that can express events and states. They use handshape classifiers to represent movement, location, and shape. Classifiers differ...

development. The mind detects handshape contrasts but groups similar handshapes together in one category. Different handshapes are stored in other categories...

assimilating their handshape. For example, the word WEEK has handshape /B/ with the weak hand and /1/ with the active hand; the active hand's handshape may be changed...

from American Sign Language (ASL), but modifies the handshapes used in ASL in order to use the handshape of the first letter of the corresponding English...

patterns in handshape production are more similar to conventionalized sign language handshapes than hearing individuals’ gestures. These handshapes are high...

configuration) from left to right. Its digits are representations of handshapes – or the configuration of the hand and fingers – where the locatives represent...

The letters and digits are signed as follows. In informal contexts, the handshapes are not made as distinctly as they are in formal contexts. 1 2 3 4 5 6...

including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859, and Macintosh families of encodings. Handshape American Sign Language grammar List of Egyptian hieroglyphs#H "H" Oxford...

In sign language, an initialized sign is one that is produced with a handshape(s) that corresponds to the fingerspelling of its equivalent in the locally...

building blocks of signs are specifications for movement, location, and handshape. At first, a separate terminology was used for the study of sign phonology...

minimal pairs, differing only in (exactly) one of the signs' parameters: handshape, movement, location, palm orientation, and nonmanual signal or marker...

(linguistics), or measure word, especially in East Asian languages Classifier handshape, in sign languages Classifier (UML), in software engineering Classification...

"FOR-FOR". To build a word, handshapes are bounded to locatives with diacritics and movement marks bounded to the handshape graphemes themselves. Extramanual...

downward-facing B handshape (palm facing downward). For example, if a person or an animal was crawled under something, A V handshape with bent fingers...

months of age, a child will begin babbling, producing the speech sounds or handshapes of the languages used around them. Words appear around the age of 12 to...

example, signs that are based on the "fist" handshape come before signs based on the "open hand" handshape. The dictionary was edited by David Brien, assisted...

appreciative audiences around the US. His poems make sophisticated use of handshape, movement, use of space, repetition and facial expression. Influenced...

alphabet and very conservative American letter forms F has the 'okay' handshape with the fingers spread H has a shape that recalls a capital Latin H (pinkie...

passive) where both hands have the same handshape, asymmetric two-handed signs where the hands have differing handshapes, and compound signs (that combine two...

stories, folktales, translated works, original fiction and stories with handshape constraints. Authors of ASL literature use their body as the text of their...

ambiguity, that is, one symbol can represent more than one phonemic element (handshape, location or movement). For example, whereas SignFont has 25 letters encoding...

because of the way signs can be modulated in space and time), sorted by handshape, not English meaning, and coded in the Hamburg Notational System, HamNoSys...

consist of phonemes, which are specifications for location, movement, handshape, orientation, and non-manual elements. When signs differ in only one of...

Bye-Bye. Featuring: Brian Cant, The Children of Elsley Primary School 265 "Handshapes – Turkey" 6 August 1999 (1999-08-06) Tinky-Winky spills his Tubby Custard...

alphabet, the Ethiopian Ge'ez script and the Korean Hangul script use handshapes that are more or less iconic representations of the characters in the...