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Because sign languages have two main articulators, signers simultaneously experience both possibilities and constraints in the articulation and perception of linguistic messages. Sign languages commonly convey different linguistic units with each hand, and additional information is conveyed in nonmanual signals. Meaningful perseverations (or sign fragments) refer to activity by the nondominant hand that indicates the topic of either the sentence or the discourse and may represent background information. Foreground information, on the other hand, is produced by the dominant hand. In this article I utilize data from Zaban Eshareh Irani (Iranian Sign Language) to discuss this type of activity on the nondominant hand.