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Thk Stokoe System

: ai dez; tips of dez fingers touch lips or chin) _N restaurant. In some localities sign may be used doughnut'.

-    t.; knuckles of dez touch tab so that fingers project outward)

> ogar.

w a*

*ead lips; _N speech reading, lipreading, oralist; _x orał. May also be extended 'speech' and 'the organs speech'.

See also II V_T*'

w a

• I    ^v

~ fangs; may also be madę in high zero-tab with or without left G-hand touching dez elbow) . soake, serpent. See also synonym: B_D /G? .

Wx .

_ V

~ dal dez; index fingertip of dez touches chin) _N vinegar.

-**-^xa

~ Ł; dez touches chin, moves up and snaps open to fuli V with or without touching forehead) _N In some regions used for 'cheese'. 'Goat' is also signed uA-^5"'

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■ dal dez) _N water.

s sign serves as first element in several compounds:

-E 0 C₀C_D^V' 'rain'

-E 0 5005^ 'river'

_= 0 B Bf 'stream'

-E 0 J5_D<fJ5₀± 'ocean'

-= V_DV_D^X' ii 0 J5₀<?J5₀± 'salt sea'

-    :'eseare imitativeoftheflowing, meandering, or undulating naturę of the referent. However, these rs are seldom used except for such uses as signing a poem when nonce compounds too are

s zceotable, e.g. 'water' plus 'quiet' for 'pond'.

.: _2 iy signers spell the names of lakes, beaches, rivers, and oceans. On the east coast a-c 'Atlantic Cr. and o-c 'Ocean City'.

- * I _ vE 12. Examples of Stokoe's transcription system.

■t:—ed by permission of the publisher, from W.C. Stokoe, D.C. Casterline, and C.G. Croneberg, A Bfc - -. of American Sign Language (rev.). (1976): 168, Silver Spring, MD: Linstok Press.