I’ve read (I don’t have any first hand knowledge of it though) that in sign language dialogues both signers can be signing to each other at the same time (full-duplex) as opposed to each speaker having to wait for the other to stop (half-duplex). Might be another thing to file under “neat features”.
It happens, but you can’t exchange complex ideas this way. You know when someone’s talking and you nod or say “Yeah” to show you get it without interrupting? There’s a number of other short phrases you could say if you wanted, like “I know” or “Impossible” or “Dunno”, and that’s mostly what we deafies in Sweden do IME. It’s rare that hearing people do this, breaks a norm I guess, but it’s in principle you could do it. With sign you can also say a bit more complicated things without breaking flow like “That’s a misunderstanding” or “You’re lying” or sometimes drop in a whole sentence like “Actually no she didn’t ”… but at that point the conversation is getting heated and starting to break down.
I guess if you wanted to construct a fulltime full-duplex mode of conversation it would be a bit easier with hands than voices. Or to let one speaker use hands and the other use voice, so as to use different parts of the brain.
I’ve read (I don’t have any first hand knowledge of it though) that in sign language dialogues both signers can be signing to each other at the same time (full-duplex) as opposed to each speaker having to wait for the other to stop (half-duplex). Might be another thing to file under “neat features”.
It happens, but you can’t exchange complex ideas this way. You know when someone’s talking and you nod or say “Yeah” to show you get it without interrupting? There’s a number of other short phrases you could say if you wanted, like “I know” or “Impossible” or “Dunno”, and that’s mostly what we deafies in Sweden do IME. It’s rare that hearing people do this, breaks a norm I guess, but it’s in principle you could do it. With sign you can also say a bit more complicated things without breaking flow like “That’s a misunderstanding” or “You’re lying” or sometimes drop in a whole sentence like “Actually no she didn’t ”… but at that point the conversation is getting heated and starting to break down.
I guess if you wanted to construct a fulltime full-duplex mode of conversation it would be a bit easier with hands than voices. Or to let one speaker use hands and the other use voice, so as to use different parts of the brain.