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The Movement-Hold Model

Lets look at sonie morę examples. The sign WEEK is shown on this page in a simplified version of the Movement-Hold notation.

WEEK

SEGMENTS

RIGHT HAND	Hoid (H) Movement (M)	Hołd (H)
handshape	1	1
location	base of	tip of
	left hand	left hand
orientation	palm down	palm down
nonmanual signal	—	—
LEFT HAND
handshape	B
location	front of torso
orientation	palm
nonmanual signal	—

I articulatory / bundle

articulatory

bundle

The sign WEEK begins with a hołd (H), with the right hand (for right-handcd sign-ers) at the base of the left hand. It then moves (M) to the tip of the left hand and ends with a hołd in that location. The change in the sign is in the location of the active hand, from base to tip of the passive hand.

The one-handed sign GUESS is written as follows:

GUESS

		SEGMENTS
RIGHT HAND	H	M	H
handshape	C		S
location	right eye		left cheek
orientation	palm up		palm down
nonmanual signal	—		—

This sign begins with a hołd at the level of the right eye and then moves left and ends in a hołd near the left cheek. The sign begins with a C-handshape and ends with an S-handshape, and the palm orientation begins with the palm facing left and ends with the palm facing downward.

Not all signs have a hold-movement-hold (H-M-H) structure (see Table 1). While there are at least six possible sign structures, HM is not among them (see Figurę 16). As you can see, not all combinations are acceptable in the structure of the language. Though the details of the complete Liddell and Johnson Movement-Hold system are beyond the scope of this course, it is important to understand three basie components of the system.