Comparing Featural and Syllabographic Characters in SignWriting and Hangul
Explore the similarities and differences between featural and syllabographic characters in SignWriting and Hangul, including their representations and meanings. Discover how handshapes, movements, and non-manual signals play a role in each system.
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Two Systems of FSC (featural syllabographic characters)
Jongtae Kim Working at TRS in Seoul As a Korean Sign Language Interpreter
What is the SignWriting? What does it mean in graphetics?
Two Systems have the same characteristics. 1. syllabographic characters 2. featural characters
syllabographic Hangul vs SignWriting It means the house in SignWriting. It means the house in Korean.
syllabographic middle letter first letter last letter We don t write it like . No Serial notation
syllabographic We write it like this.
syllabographic Similarity Hangul and SignWriting : Syllabographic character One syllable psudo one syllable
syllabographic Serial notation of HamNoSys : All I one notation It has two characteristics. (handshape and origination)
syllabographic Shape of Place of Origination Movement Non-Manual hands hands of hands of hands Signals Shape of handshape Face, body, arms Movement, Dynamics Non-Manual Signals
featural Similarity Hangul and SignWriting : Featural character Basic form
featural M sound starts from the lips. ( ) for M looks like lips. S sound starts from the teeth. ( ) for S looks like teeth. N sound starts from the back of upper teeth. ( ) for N looks like the tongue at the back of upper teeth. ( ) for D has the same base of because the sound starts from the same place of . Korean characters looks like the places that start at/from.
featural [Korea] sign in KSL It shows by the head which is the place the sign starts at. WYSIWYG Sign Writing does so. It shows on the places that start at/from. It is natural.
featural Hangul writing letter unit , consonant and vowel unit , , , , , fetural unit ( , )/ ( , )/ ( , ) basic form and added line syllabograph letter
featural SignWriting Basic form added characteristic
featural SignWriting Basic form added characteristic
Korean-Hangul is analytically a featural system. And it is systhetically a syllabic system. -Florian Coulmas
SignWriting is a system of featural syllabographic characters
