mouthing
English
Verb
mouthing
- present participle of mouth
Noun
mouthing (plural mouthings)
- The act of forming a shape with the mouth, especially as part of sign language.
- 2013, Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, Ceil Lucas, The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics (page 382)
- Mouthings tend to occur most often when signers are manually articulating nouns, open-class items, and morphologically simpler signs (see Crasborn et al. 2008).
- 2013, Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, Ceil Lucas, The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics (page 382)
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