Originally Posted by owen06

From what I have read regarding CS, each consonant handshape represents a group of consonant phonemes, within that one group, each phoneme has a distinct mouthshape. So, that one hand shape can only represent in conjunction with the mouth shape, one sound, which is part of the word. The same goes for the vowels. My understanding from this then, is that from learning English through cueing, when a person is having a conversation with a speaking person, they are able to distinguish between b/c they have a context, and are able to know that they are talking about "Going to the beach" rather than "Going to the peach", since going to the peach doesn't make sense.