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| Instrument Classifiers (ICL) |
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Show how a person manipulates objects.
-Passing a ball or any other object.
-Hand demonstrates the shape, size, or grip of the object |
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| Element Classifiers (ECL) |
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Show the movement of elements like air, smoke or liquids
-Opening hand for a splash or a single finger for squirting |
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| Locative Classifiers (LCL) |
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Tells the location or movement of an object
-Use a moving finger to demonstrate the path of a ball
-Line drives are fast and low movement compared to a slow and high movement of a pop-up.
-Different shapes indicate different objects
-Finger could be a small ball, while a "B" could be a flat object |
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| Semantic Classifiers (SCL) |
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Indicates location or movement of individuals.
-"V" can be to indicate a standing person and curled "V" a sitting person
-Single finger can also indicate a person.
-Direction of the finger indicates orientation to the person.
-Use this to indicate things like walking, lying down, falling, or orientation to other objects |
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Uses upper body parts to describe actions like shaking your head, shrugging the shoulders or hitting your head in frustration.
-Used in a role shift |
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| Body Part Classifiers (BPCL) |
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Definition
Using the hands and arms to demonstrate the actions or positions of other parts of the body.
-Hands moving to demonstrate walking or tapping the foot on the ground or fingers to represent crossing your legs or kicking an object |
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CL-1
-Long, skinny objects: most commonly, a singular person
-Small cylindrical objects: sticks, pencils
-Delineating 2 dimensional objects: poster board, plot of land, circle, diamond (any shape)
-Trajectory paths and or connections: one way street, two way street, intersection, ball flying midair, a snake moving across a surface, tears
-The way certain animals move: (modification CL-1>CL-X) caterpillar crawling, worm tunneling, snail crawling |
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CL-3
-Motorized vehicles: car, tractor, helicopter, bus, motorcycle
-Vehicle related events: parking a car, driving erratically, parallel parking, types of car accidents
-Groups of 3: 3 people crossing the road
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-Small objects gripped by the index, thumb and middle finger: computer mouse, baseball, bowling ball
-Hands: (modification of CL-5-claw) particularly for scaling or climbing large object, wall, boulder
-Hands that are stashing: stocking shelves, investing in stocks
-Containers held by index and thumb, requiring ejection of contents (using thumb): needle, vaccinations
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