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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 2.
Published in final edited form as: Lab Phonol. 2012 Oct 1;3(2):425–453. doi: 10.1515/lp-2012-0019

Table 5.

The difference in the position of the hand along each axis (in mm) as an effect of increased signing rate for the sign STUBBORN.

Signer Environment Vertical axis Lateral axis Horizontal axis
LL High −85.7 to −60.0
Δ = 25.7 up***
72.3 to 45.3
Δ = 27.0 left***
128.2 to 121.4
Δ = 6.8 back***
Low −69.2 to −111.7
Δ = 42.5 down***
41.5 to 50.1
Δ = 8.6 right
125.6 to 112.7
Δ = 12.9 back***

RD High −96.9 to −84.7
Δ = 12.2 up
68.4 to 51.7
Δ = 16.7 left
89.2 to 115.0
Δ = 25.8 forward***
Low −106.4 to − 87.3
Δ = 19.1 up**
62.5 to 70.3
Δ = 7.8 right
94.0 to 98.4
Δ = 4.4 forward

VF High −28.4 to −44.4
Δ = 16.0 down
−28.1 to 3.3
Δ = 31.4 right
130.3 to 147.0
Δ = 16.7 forward*
Low −51.1 to −67.9
Δ = 16.8 down**
31.9 to 9.1
Δ = 22.8 left
131.0 to 135.1
Δ = 4.1 forward
*

p ≤ .05

**

p ≤ .01

***

p ≤ .001