In summary: • only note-supported footage can reliably yield long yet fully fluent discourse; • only non-supported signing can be analysed as fully acceptable language productions; • memory allows for non-supported but short stretches of clean discourse; • any break in the flow of discourse should be identifyable in the resulting data.
our proposition to collect long and fluent elicited signed discourse is: • submit the assignment in advance to the informants, together with a description of the following rules, for them to prepare their intended productions; • allow any preparation notes, drawings, personal recordings, etc.