Phonology, phonetics and the nondominant hand
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Many studies have shown that the phonology of sign language has much in common with that of spoken language, including the existence of meaningless phonological features and feature classes, phonological constraints, rules of assimilation, and more. At the same time, the phonetics of the two language modalities is shaped in part by articulators with very different anatomical and physiological characteristics. For these reasons, sign language offers an interesting vantage point from which to view the relation between phonetics and phonology. In this chapter, the behavior of the nondominant hand in the phonology and the prosody of sign language is analyzed. This articulator, anatomically identical to another articulator in the system (the dominant hand), has no parallel in spoken language, yet it plays a significant role in aspects of phonological organization that are similar in the two modalities.
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