Language & Linguistics
This characteristic of language allows us to discuss the past, future, or things that are not physically present.
What is displacement?
These are the five parameters used to describe the structure of ASL signs.
What are handshape, movement, location, palm orientation, and nonmanual signals?
This researcher helped show that ASL has its own linguistic structure.
Who is William Stokoe?
This segment describes a moment when the articulators remain relatively still.
What is a hold?
This process adds movement between two signs during connected signing.
What is movement epenthesis?
This characteristic allows people to create new sentences they have never signed before.
What is productivity?
These are two signs that differ in only one phonological feature and have different meanings.
What is a minimal pair?
These three parts of Stokoe's system represent location, handshape, and movement.
What are TAB, DEZ, and SIG?
This segment describes a change in the position or configuration of the articulators.
What is a movement?
This process shortens or removes a hold in connected signing.
What is hold reduction?
This field is the scientific study of language and how it works.
What is linguistics?
This parameter describes where a sign is produced.
What is location?
This term describes how different features of a sign can occur at the same time.
What is simultaneous structure?
This letter represents a shortened hold in the Movement–Hold Model.
What is X?
This process changes the order of segments or features in a sign.
What is metathesis?
This approach studies how people actually use language rather than telling them how they should use it.
What is descriptive linguistics?
This is what we call a phonological feature that can change the meaning of a sign.
What is a contrastive feature?
This is something Stokoe's original system did not fully describe about signs.
What is their internal sequence of movements and holds?
This term describes the order in which movements and holds occur within a sign.
What is sequentiality?
This process occurs when a sign's feature becomes more similar to a nearby feature.
What is assimilation?
This is one reason ASL is considered a language rather than simply a collection of gestures.
What is its systematic, rule-governed linguistic structure?
This term describes two different ways of producing the same ASL sign without changing its meaning.
What are phonological variants?
This is the main purpose of Stokoe's notation system when studying ASL signs.
What is describing the internal phonological components of signs?
This term refers to the collection of articulatory features associated with a movement or hold segment.
What is an articulatory bundle?
This process occurs when the nondominant hand is omitted in certain contexts.
What is weak hand deletion?