Handling versus Instrument: a crosslinguistic study of sign language morphology

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The signs for hand used objects across sign languages are performed in a very iconic way, with mainly a Handling or an Instrument form. As a previous research on this area shows, sign languages seem to have a strong preference towards one of these representation types over the other. The present study analysed form preference of five sign languages based on a list of hand used objects selected from the dictionaries of these sign languages, in order to determine whether this preference was significantly strong within each of the sign languages.

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