We'd like to use analytics cookies to understand which symbols people look up, so we know what to research next. They are not used for advertising and we set none of them unless you say yes. What we store.
Three parameters in a line.
Also known as: Stokoe system, ASL linguistic notation
The first linguistic notation for a signed language, writing a sign as location, handshape and movement.
Writes a sign as a sequence of location, handshape and movement symbols.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Public information
Its real significance is the analysis rather than the notation: by showing that a sign decomposes into contrasting parts, it established that signed languages have phonology and are languages rather than gesture systems.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Public information
Records only three parameters, omitting orientation and facial expression, which later work showed to be contrastive — so the notation is incomplete by the standards its own analysis created.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Public information
A linear string of symbols in a fixed order — a location symbol, then a handshape letter, then movement marks written as superscripts.