Chuck Darwin<p>How Do You Rhyme in Sign Language?</p><p>In the phonology of sign language, the parts of a signed word are: <br>handshape, location, palm orientation, movement, and non-manual signal. </p><p>They are called parameters. Each parameter has a number of primes. </p><p>More specifically In American sign language, the same parameter in two or more words (signs) are repeated. </p><p>The parts may be the same handshape, movement, and/or location, or combined, but the handshape <a href="https://c.im/tags/rhyme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rhyme</span></a> is the most commonly used.</p><p>Here’s an example of <a href="https://c.im/tags/ASL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ASL</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> where you can clearly see the rhymes and music of the words in her poem. The poet, Christine Marshall, didn’t caption the poem and suggested viewers suggest a translation in the comments</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/3jskB4GJJj0?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/3jskB4GJJj0?feature=s</span><span class="invisible">hared</span></a></p>