home sign

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home sign (countable and uncountable, plural home signs)

  1. (uncountable) The gestural communication system, less than a complete sign language, developed by a deaf child who lacks input from a language model in the family.
    Synonym: kitchen sign
  2. (countable) A particular sign in such a system.
    • 2020 April 27, Meg Medina, “A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha’s Vineyard in the 19th Century”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:
      LeZotte also gives readers a sense of M.V.S.L. (Martha's Vineyard Sign Language), used by the islanders through the mid-1900s but never fully documented, by combining "home signs" she used as a child with variations of American Sign Language.

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