13 Mouth Patterns

Mouth Patterns

In BSL there are two types of mouthing patterns; mouthing and mouth gestures.

Mouthings are related to spoken English whereas mouth gestures are not. Mouthings show many things: topic, nouns, they are morphologically simple, have a fixed vocabulary, signs related to English mouthings.

Mouth gestures are for; clarification purposes, comments, verbs, morphology complex, productive, sign is not linked to an English mouth pattern.

13.2 Quiz continued

13.3 Different Uses in BSL

13.4 Mouthing with Signs

13.5 Homonyms

13.6 Mouthing Gestures

13.7 Multi-channel signs

13.8 MISSING

13.9 Morphological Information

13.10 Mouth Gestures & Movements

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