Initialized sign
The handshape(s) of these signs then represent the initial letter of their written equivalent(s).In some cases, this is due to the local oral language having more than one equivalent to a basic sign.In other cases initialization is required for disambiguation, though the signs are not semantically related.In other cases initialization is not used for disambiguation; the ASL sign for "elevator", for example, is an 'E' handshape moving up and down along the upright index finger of the other hand.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This linguistic morphology article is a stub.