Language & Communication Systems
These features can help linguists to determine if a communication method can be classified as a language
These are three examples of ASL phonemes
ASL parameters (also, phonemes) include:
-Handshape
-Location
-Movement
-Palm Orientation
-NMS
The word order of ASL, including the following:
V, O, Topic, S, Tag
Topic, S, V, O, Tag
The language of touch that utilizes four hands of signers rather than two hands
ProTactile (PT)
He is known as the "father of ASL Linguistics"
Dr. William Stokoe
The word-for-word expansion of the acronym 'SEE' (SEE II)
Signing Exact English
This is any example of a sign that follows Battison's Dominance Condition
Some examples:
HELP, SCHOOL, WORK, SET-UP, CHOCOLATE
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)
The practice of adjusting language use depending on the setting or audience surrounding the speaker/signer
Code-switching
The two research assistants to Dr. William Stokoe
Dorothy Casterline & Carl Croneberg
This design feature of language is evidenced by parents passing ASL down to their children
Cultural Transmission
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)
These are any two examples of two different depiction types
Examples:
Token - DV(crowd of people watching together)
Pointer Buoy - IX(Mom)
These are two examples of linguistic variation categories (not including historical variation)
Linguistic Variation categories:
-Regional
-Social
-Ethnic
-Gender
-Age
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
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
This phonological process is when one sign takes on characteristics of the sign produced before or after it (usually handshape influence).
Assimilation
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?
These are any three examples of signs that have undergone historical variation over time, whether phonological or morphological
EXAMPLES:
HELP, CHANGING-CHANNEL, GOLD
The four authors of our class textbook
Clayton Valli, Miako Villanueva, Ceil Lucas, Kristin J. Mulrooney
This is an international sign language that began as a pidgin
1. Nicaraguan Sign Language
(ISN, Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua)
-OR-
2. Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL)
These are two examples of Derivational Morphology categories
-Adding affixes
-Lexicalized fingerspelling
-Compound words
-Noun-verb pairs
-Numeral incorporation
-Depiction
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) :)
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)
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