1.5.3. Other non-manuals

Lexical non-manuals besides mouth gestures can be movements of body, head, eyebrows, eyes, and eyegaze. To exemplify, luck and maybe have the same manual features, yet maybe has raised eyebrows in its phonological specification while luck doesnโ€™t.

 

 

luck

 

 

maybe

(adapted and r.f.  from Dikyuva et al., 2015: 116)

 

As for body movement, the sign konya, a city name, has no manual movement but only repetitive headshake. Contrasting in movement feature, self has only manual movement.

 

 

konya

 

 

self

(adapted and r.f. from MakaroฤŸlu, Bekar, & Arฤฑk, 2014: 224)