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Publication Date: 2018
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Manual and Nonmanual Features of Name Signs in Kata Kolok and Sign Language of the Netherlands
Lutzenberger, Hannah
Sign Language Studies, v18 n4 p546-569 Sum 2018
Name signs are based on descriptions, initialization, and loan translations. Nyst and Baker (2003) have found crosslinguistic similarities in the phonology of name signs, such as a preference for one-handed signs and for the head location. Studying Kata Kolok (KK), a rural sign language without indigenous fingerspelling, strongly suggests that one-handedness is not correlated to initialization, but represents a more general feature of name sign phonology. Like in other sign languages, the head location is used frequently in both KK and Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) name signs. The use of nonmanuals, however, is strikingly different. NGT name signs are always accompanied by mouthings, which are absent in KK. Instead, KK name signs may use mouth gestures; these may disambiguate manually identical name signs, and even form independent name signs without any manual features.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Rural Areas, Nonverbal Communication, Deafness, Naming, Identification, Motion, Grammar
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