On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:07:27 -0800, Patrick Chew
<patchew@...> wrote:
[...]

> experienced field practitioners (read: professors). One of the largest
> debated points we had was how to "transcribe" this heretofore unknown
> signed language. We have IPA for spoken languages, to cover the wide and
> diverse range of possibilities, but what had we for signed languages.

Just a thought: Human body movement (and, in some cases, movement of
several bodies) has been transcribed by various dance notations, including
those by Feuillet and Laban, iirc; (also Benesh?). This made me wonder
about some fundamentally-related scheme; I know nothing about those
mentioned for sign language, so maybe they are "already" akin to dance
notations.

This is a comment by a dilettante, so it could be close to fantasy or to
deep ignorance! :)

Regards,

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Nicholas Bodley <#o#> Waltham, Mass.
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