Nonmanual Components


Nonmanual components are not sufficently developed in HamNoSys. Up to now movements of articulators other than the hands have to be described with the movement inventory of HamNoSys. Presently, detailed descriptions are not possible.

Based upon HamNoSys some encoding attempts are available.

General form:
(articulator movement)


In principle, all location symbols can be used as an articulator.

Example:

shoulder shrug on the left side

movement to the right with both hand and elbow

turning the head 45° to the right

head shake