Culture & Grammar
what is appropriate non-manual signal description with its question type:
Yes/no question
lower eyebrows; lean head forward
ASL is English conveyed through signs (just as French is English conveyed through French words
False
1. The First Deaf headmaster of a school the deaf in America.
2. The hearing minister who went to Europe to learn a teaching method for the deaf.
Laurent Clerc
Thomas Gallaudet
There are two divergent "attitudes" that people can have about Deaf people, One is negative and one is positive. They are:
a. the _____________view and
b. the __________view.
Clinical
Cultural
Spatial referencing uses which of the following?
a. pointing to a ceretian location in space (with raised eyebrows)
b. eye gaze slightly at location in space
c. signing from the observer's point of view
d. set and hold a reference point (with raised eyebrows)
e. none of the above
D
what is appropriate non-manual signal description with its question type:
Wh-word question
raise eyebrows; lean head forward
ASL can express both concrete 9table, woman) and abstract (concepts)
TRUE
1. A priest who set up the first school school for the deaf in France.
2. First deaf president of Gallaudet University
Abbee de L'Epee
I. King Jordan
What should you AVOID when you do fingerspelling?
Bouncing
what is the pronoun type to the appropriate handshape:
a. personal pronoun
1-handshape, lead with index finger/point
If you are right-handed, then your dominant signing hand is:
your left hand
your right hand
either hand
your right hand
1. ASL is universal sign language.
2. Standardization of ASL began in 1988.
FALSE
FALSE
Match the description to the most appropriate non-manual grammatical signal
1. Yes/no question
2. Wh-word question
3. negation
1. Lower brows, lean forward, hold last sign
2. shake head side-to-side
3. raise brows, tilt forward, hold last sign
3
1
2
____________is the use of the area around the body and eye gaze to correlate with the actual environment.
Spatial Agreement
what is the pronoun type to the appropriate handshape:
a. possessive pronoun
B-handshape with thumb extended; lead with palm
Match the following terms with the approoproate definition:
system style
1. _____a naturally occurring form of signing, combining elements of ASL (vocabulary) and English (syntax)
2. ____a man-made or contrived form of signing, often used in an attempt to teach deaf children English
1. style
2. system
1. ASL is historically related to British Sign Language.
2. Culturally Deaf people regard ASL as their second language (second to English)
FALSE
FALSE
Match the description to the most appropriate non-manual grammatical signal:
1. relatively near
2. moderate distance
3. relatively far
1. tilt head, lift cheek and shoulder
2. tilt head, squint eyes; open mouth slighly or puff cheeks3. tilt head, pucker lips
1
3
2
ONe model of membership in the Deaf community/Deaf Culture proposes four avenues of membership. They are:
a. audiological
b. __________
c. ___________
d. ____________
political
social
linguistic
what is the pronoun type to the appropriate handshape:
a. reflexive pronoun
A-handshape with thumb extended; lead with knuckles
The primary difference between nouns and verbs (in Noun/verb pairs) is
a. handshape
b. movement
c. hand location
d. facial expression
e. none of the above
B. Movement
ASL was developed by American Deaf people through time.
Because of their language and cultural identity Deaf people prefer to be called "Deaf" rather than "hearing impaired"
TRUE
TRUE
In general, fingerspelling is only used to give names of people, and
a. _____________
b. _____________
c. _____________
Name of cities and states
brand names
title of movies or books
A language is a _______of relatively_______symbols and___________signals that change _________and that members of a ___________share and use for several purposes: to interact with each other, to communicate their ___________________ and to transmit their ____________-culture from generation to generation.
System
arbitrary
grammatical
across time
community
ideas, emotions, and intentions
culture
what is the pronoun type to the appropriate handshape:
a. demonstrative pronoun
y-handshape; lead with palm