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URL:http://www.istor.org/stable/4615436Accessed:13/02/200918:32  \nYour use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use,available athttp://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp.JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides,in part,that unlessyou have obtained prior permission,you may not download an entire issue of ajournal or multiple copies of articles,and youmay use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal,non-commercial use.  \nPlease contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work.Publisher contact information may be obtained athttp://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=cup.  \nEach copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printedpage of such transmission.  \nJSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship.We work with theescholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon,and to build a common research platform thatpromotes the discovery and use of these resources.For more information about JSTOR,please contact support@jstor.org.  \n⑧  \n# Units in the analysis of signs*\n\nHarry van der HulstHolland Institute of Linguistics/University of Leiden  \n# 1 Introduction\n\n## 1.1 Goals\n\nThe assumption that there is a common set of linguistic principlesunderlying both spoken language and sign language phonology,whichforms part of the human language capacity,is shared by most phonologistsworking on sign language.See Sandler(1993a)for an extensive discussionof these issues.But even though this assumption is reasonable,since bothspoken and signed languages are products of the same human brain andfulfil the same function,it is not clear that theories of representation whichhave been proposed for spoken languages can be directly applied to thestructure of sign languages.Such representations have been developed onthe basis of the spoken language modality only.They are often so close tothe phonetics of spoken languages that we cannot rule out the possibilitythat non-trivial aspects of them are modality-specific.¹Therefore,ratherthan,for example,attempting to test various competing(spoken language-based)theories of syllable structure,we must first investigate the structureof sign language in its own right.This strategy need not be pushed too far,however.In developing a model of signs we can benefit from generalprinciples which have proved successful in the study of spoken languages,especially if these principles do not seem to be directly based on 'spokenphonetics'.  \nIn this article I will propose a model for the phonological representationof signs which is based on such general principles.These principlesinvolve the claim that constituent structure for linguistic objects is HEADEDand BINARY,and that one unit can be the head of successively moreinclusive constituents.My goal will be to show that(a)well-established(although not always undisputed)empirical generalisations regarding thestructure of monomorphemic signs(largely based on studies of AmericanSign Language)and (b)theoretical proposals regarding the hierarchicalorganisation of signs (in the spirit of feature geometry)can both beaccommodated in a model which adopts a perspective on linguisticstructure which is guided by these principles.  \n## 1.2 The basic insight\n\nThe insight that sign languages have a DUAL STRUCTURE,i.e.that basicsigns can be further analysed in terms of a set of non-meaning-bearing  \n210 Harry van der Hulst  \n(1)a.Handshape  \nb.Location of the hand  \nc.Movement of the hand  \n(2)a.spoken language  \ndistinctive properties and rules manipulating these,is a fairly recent one.Stokoe(1960)proposed to decompose basic signs in American SignLanguage(ASL)into three'aspects'or parameters,which,","cbCaieknb08Nuorm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieknb08Nuorm","pdf",3695725,34,"English","# 1 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