@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/gest.1.1.05mcc, author = "McClave, Evelyn", title = "The relationship between spontaneous gestures of the hearing and American Sign Language", journal= "Gesture", year = "2001", volume = "1", number = "1", pages = "51-72", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.1.1.05mcc", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/gest.1.1.05mcc", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "1568-1475", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "deixis", keywords = "American Sign Language", keywords = "head movements", keywords = "direct quotes", keywords = "gesture", keywords = "intensifiers", abstract = "This paper presents evidence of non-manual gestures in American Sign Language (ASL). The types of gestures identified are identical to non-manual, spontaneous gestures used by hearing non-signers which suggests that the gestures co-occurring with ASL signs are borrowings from hearing culture. A comparison of direct quotes in ASL with spontaneous movements of hearing non-signers suggests a history of borrowing and eventual grammaticization in ASL of features previously thought to be unique to signed languages. The electronic edition of this article includes audio-visial data.", }