Addenda, Woodward, SLS 57

Addenda, Woodward, SLS 57 James Woodward has requested that some of the material omitted from his article in SignLanguageStudjes 57 (pp. 375-85) be added when space permits. The data he obtained from published lexicons of ten sign languages fits nicely into the implicational pattern shown in his Table 4 (p. 379). It also fits in the 48-cell pattern below, where there is only one exception (circled), yielding a 97.9%rate of scalability: Trunk Arm Contact point + + Index + Index + Index Index * + Index + Index + Index + + Index - Index + + Index + Middle Middle Language American Indian Australian British Finnish French Japanese Providence Island Rennell Island Swedish American Indian Table 4& Acualcorrelationsofsingle finger contact handshapes with lawions He adds: "In addition to the regularity in Table 42, it is also possible to set up another implication based on the group number. In all cases, the more expected (less marked) handshapes can occur in more locations than can the less expected handshapes; and index contact occurs in more locations than does middle finger contact: Language Index contact Mid contact American 4 3 Indian 3 1 Australian 3 0 British 2 0 Finnish 4 0 French 3 0 Japanese 3 0 Providence Island 4 0 Rennell Island 2 0 Swedish 4 0 Pinky contact 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ring contact 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Table lb. Inplicaionlgrouping of/wation withsinglefingercontact handshapes (Omitting numerals & signsborrowed from spoken languges)." Group 4 3 3 2 4 3 3 4 2 4 3 1 Hand/zero + SLS 58 ...