I am running an experiment on the acceptability of variation in sign language. One of the things that touch upon this matter is sign wellformedness, which supposes a certain sign language phonology with rules that tell whether a sign is wellformed or not. I am not done thinking that one over but it did get me thinking: is there such a thing a gesture wellformedness.
According to these guys, there definitely is a way to do a gesture and a way that you don’t do it. Listen to the comments for details 🙂
Brusco of Oz
That is sooo funny! Freaked those guys right out…must be homophobia…haha