Meaning of home sign | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The gestural communication system, less than a complete sign language, developed by a deaf child who lacks input from a language model in the family.
   uncountable
2. A particular sign in such a system.
   countable

Examples

“LeZotte also gives readers a sense of M.V.S.L. (Martha's Vineyard Sign Language), used by the islanders through the mid-1900s but never fully documented, by combining "home signs" she used as a child with variations of American Sign Language.”

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