Translations:AY Honors/Auslan (Australian Sign Language) - Advanced/Answer Key/30/en
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Auslan employs a 3D space, thus rendering it a non-linear language. With avenues such as depicting signs, nonmanual features and enactment to convey meaning, there is less dependence on lexicalized signs. Auslan becomes more linear through the sequential employment of single signs to have single word meanings, however overdependence on lexicalized sign can be awkward and labourious with minimum expression and context. By exploiting 3D space , signers can exploit the pragmatics face-to-face of Auslan, enabling signers to flavour their signing with intonation, expressivity and different shades of meaning.
