Language & Communication Systems
Phonology & Morphology
Syntax & Depiction
Sociolinguistics
People
100

These features can help linguists to determine if a communication method can be classified as a language

Design features of language
100

These are three examples of ASL phonemes

ASL parameters (also, phonemes) include:

-Handshape
-Location
-Movement
-Palm Orientation
-NMS

100

The word order of ASL, including the following:
V, O, Topic, S, Tag

Topic, S, V, O, Tag

100

The language of touch that utilizes four hands of signers rather than two hands

ProTactile (PT)

100

He is known as the "father of ASL Linguistics"

Dr. William Stokoe

200

The word-for-word expansion of the acronym 'SEE' (SEE II)

Signing Exact English

200

This is any example of a sign that follows Battison's Dominance Condition

Some examples:
HELP, SCHOOL, WORK, SET-UP, CHOCOLATE

200

These are any examples of each of the three verb types in ASL

Plain, Indicating, Depicting -
Examples: LOVE, GIVE(to), DV(person slowly walk backwards)

200

The practice of adjusting language use depending on the setting or audience surrounding the speaker/signer

Code-switching

200

The two research assistants to Dr. William Stokoe

Dorothy Casterline & Carl Croneberg

300

This design feature of language is evidenced by parents passing ASL down to their children

Cultural Transmission

300

These are any one example of a free morpheme in ASL and any one example of a bound morpheme in ASL

Examples of free morphemes:
NAME, FRIEND, WIFE, AGREE

Examples of bound morphemes:
AGENT, SIX-, m(EE)

300

These are any two examples of two different depiction types

Examples:
Token - DV(crowd of people watching together)
Pointer Buoy - IX(Mom)

300

These are two examples of linguistic variation categories (not including historical variation)

Linguistic Variation categories:
-Regional
-Social
-Ethnic
-Gender
-Age

300

This current instructor in the Gallaudet department of Deaf Studies has her MA in Sign Language Education and BA in American Sign Language; she is a proponent of applied linguistics to support the Black Deaf community.

Felicia Williams

400

These are one English influence and one ASL influence of Contact Sign

English influences:
-Word order
-Use of prepositions
-Constructions with 'that'
-Expressions
-Mouthing of English words

ASL:
-Non-manual signals (NMS)
-Body shifting
-Eye gaze
-Use of space

400

This phonological process is when one sign takes on characteristics of the sign produced before or after it (usually handshape influence).

Assimilation

400

This is any glossed example of an Wh-q ASL sentence that includes a depicting verb
(write on the board)

Example:
YOUR PAINTING, YOU DV(hang up on the wall) WHERE?

400

These are any three examples of signs that have undergone historical variation over time, whether phonological or morphological

EXAMPLES:
HELP, CHANGING-CHANNEL, GOLD

400

The four authors of our class textbook

Clayton Valli, Miako Villanueva, Ceil Lucas, Kristin J. Mulrooney

500

This is an international sign language that began as a pidgin

1. Nicaraguan Sign Language
(ISN, Idioma de SeƱas de Nicaragua)
-OR-
2. Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL)

500

These are two examples of Derivational Morphology categories

Derivational Morphology categories: 

-Adding affixes
-Lexicalized fingerspelling
-Compound words
-Noun-verb pairs
-Numeral incorporation
-Depiction

500

These are the lexical categories of the glossed words in the ASL sentence written on the whiteboard
(write the categories on the board)

(see whiteboard) :)

500

This historical film of ASL is a recording of former NAD president, George W. Veditz, in 1913

The Preservation of Sign Language
(or Preservation of the Sign Language, original title)

500

This Gallaudet scholar is the current chair of the Gallaudet Linguistics department and is known for his trail-blazing and evolving research on ASL Depiction

Dr. Paul Dudis

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