"home sign" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "home signs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "homesign",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "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."
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          "gestural",
          "gestural"
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          "communication",
          "communication"
        ],
        [
          "system",
          "system"
        ],
        [
          "sign language",
          "sign language"
        ],
        [
          "deaf",
          "deaf"
        ],
        [
          "child",
          "child"
        ],
        [
          "input",
          "input"
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        [
          "family",
          "family"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "kitchen sign"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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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        "A particular sign in such a system."
      ],
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        "(countable) A particular sign in such a system."
      ],
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        "countable"
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    }
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  "word": "home sign"
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      "form": "home signs",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "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."
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          "communication",
          "communication"
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          "system",
          "system"
        ],
        [
          "sign language",
          "sign language"
        ],
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          "deaf",
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          "child",
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        ],
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          "input",
          "input"
        ],
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          "family",
          "family"
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        "(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."
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        {
          "word": "kitchen sign"
        }
      ],
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      ]
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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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        "A particular sign in such a system."
      ],
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        "(countable) A particular sign in such a system."
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