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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 28.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Lang Linguist Theory. 2011 Jul 15;30(1):1–31. doi: 10.1007/s11049-011-9145-1

Table 1.

The average type-token ratio and average finger complexity values for Object-HSs and Handling-HSs for each group of signers and gesturers by country.

Signers Gesturers
ASL LIS US IT
Morphology
 Type-Token ratio .29 .30 .53 .52
Phonology
 Finger complexity: Object-HSs 1.86 1.53 1.11 1.23
 Finger complexity: Handling-HSs 1.08 1.24 1.30 1.67