Thursday 17 July 2014

Non-manual Features

Non-manual features (NMF) are another parameter of Auslan in addition to HOLM. 

NMF alone do not have any particular meaning, but are very important when  used in conjunction with lexical and depicting signs to add emphasis or additional meaning. 

Below is a table that shows all the NMFs one could add to their signing.



Source:
Johnston, T. & Schrembi, A. (2007). Australian Sign Language: An introduction to sign language linguistics. Cambridge University, p97. Accessed via: http://deafsocietynsw.org.au/documents/SignLanguage1Handouts.pdf 

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