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Fingerspelling is used to support sign languages, providing a means by which words without signs may be communicated. As with signing itself, it has often been reported that learners find greater difficulty reading fingerspelling than they do in encoding it. An experiment tested the skills of adult hearing learners of the two‐handed fingerspelling system used in British Sign Language. Participants were asked to read video recordings of their own fingerspellings; thus each undertook the reading task at their … Show more
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