How to pronounce“handshapes”in English

This isn’t just true for /t/ — all of the sounds or handshapes of a language can be produced differently depending on the context.

We've learned about how language is made up of smaller pieces, like sounds and handshapes, which combine into larger ones, like morphemes, signs, and words, and into even larger sentences and conversations.

They claim that these gloves can “translate” American Sign Language into English speech by recognizing the wearer’s handshapes.

There's the level of the form, like sounds or handshapes, which don't have meaning in themselves.

There’s no inherent connection between the word ‘bunny’ and this furry thing it refers to: all these other sequences of sounds and handshapes also refer to this animal.

Now, despite the etymology of ‘phone’ as sound, signed languages also have their own phonologies, with some handshapes, movements, locations, and orientations for signs that are relevant in some signed languages and not others.

First, there’s the study of individual sounds in spoken languages, or handshapes in signed languages, which is called phonetics.