The systems of numerals in Catalan Sign language (LSC) and Spanish Sign Language (LSE): a comparative study
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This is a contrastive study between systems of numerals in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) and Spanish Sign Language (LSE), the two sign languages used in Spain. The description concentrates in cardinal numerals and includes the lexicalprimitives, the operators and emphasizes in the resources these languages use to indicate decimal values. In the comparison we considered: numeral series and its variants, formational parameters, use of change in hand orientation to convey different values, signing of intermediate and final zeroes. LSE and LSC coincide in that their numeral systems derive from manual counting, with the exception of one variant of some numerals in the decades in LSE. Both show one onehanded and one two-handed variant. Differences concentrate in some hand shapes, particularly of the operators; in hand orientation with regard to the basic lexicon (from ONE to NINE); and in some signs in the movement parameter.
En: Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 9 ( TISLR9), Brasil, desembre de 2006, Sign Languages: spinning and unraveling the past, present and future.