Language

31/05/2017

Guillermo Eler
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May 12, 2017, 2:28 p.m.
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When speaking another language, it is normal to have a little accent. Especially if it is not your own language. The same goes for sign language. Even without opening your mouth, understanding the message that someone is transmitting can be a quiet or more complicated task, depending on whether the "speaker" with you is right-handed or left-handed.
It is the one that the scientists of the University of Birmingham concluded in England, when analyzing the 43 people who dominate in the British Sign Language (BSL) - British equivalent of ours LIBRAS (Brazilian Language of Signals). They sought to get the how to use the left or right hand can interfere in the communication of people with hearing impairment.
In the experiment described in the study published in the scientific journal Cognition, participants viewed an image and then the sign corresponding to it in sign language. They were used in the study of words like "chocolate", "the guitar" and "table". Here, the word "wood" is communicated by a lefty here by a right-hand man.
In general, lefties tend to do better on the task. Understanding the message of someone who prefers to use the right hand is faster than if the same gesture was made by a lefty.
This happens because there are more right people in the world. Thus, whoever communicates from the sign language usually has to accompany the messages being transmitted with the right hand in the direction of the actions.
However, when some of the more complex "sign" that needs to be represented, the dominant hand ends up importing a little more. As a more complex sign, understand the words needed for both hands to be transmitted. "Wood" is an example of this: the flat hand may be right, if you are right handed, or left, if you are left handed. For this type of word, the order of factors alters the product itself.
">In this situation, right-handed people understood faster than if they oriented more with the right - and the left-handers, the "loudspeakers" that we drop the actions with the left.
Although the message and movement is the same, being left-handed is like having an "accent": the message is transmitted, but less efficient than the variation in the language standard. Whoever prefers the left hand is right in saying that the world is made for the right-handed.
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