Pronominalization
The handshape we use to indicate the pronoun me, I, you, he, she.
What is the 1 handshape?
The non-manual used to show that something recently happened or will be happening
What is cheek-to-shoulder mouth morpheme?
the branch of linguistics that deals with systems of sounds within a language or between different languages.
What is Phonology?
__________ is the study of the forms of words. It is the smallest meaningful units in language and of how those meaningful units are used to build new words or signs.
What is Morphology?
The structure ASL MOST COMMONLY uses and an example
Time-Topic-Comment
YESTERDAY SCHOOL IX-me GO-TO IX-me.
__________ is the study of the meaning of words and sentences.
What is Semantics?
The dominant hand produces the sign while the non-dominant hand serves as a base.
What is the Dominance Condition?
The handshape we use to indicate a couple, see, walk (CL), run (CL).
What is the V handshape?
The space in front of and behind the body to show past and future tense.
What is the timeline?
_________ is an English word that represents a sign. Linguistics uses _______ to write a signed utterance.
What is Gloss or Glossing?
Nouns are different than Verbs in ASL because...
Nouns have a repeated movement and Verbs have a singular, long movement.
An example of a noun with a repeated movement is "dance," where the action is repeated. An example of a verb with a singular, long movement is "leap," where the action is a single, prolonged movement.
When using SVO in ASL, what links two (2) clauses?
JESSY RAN WHY DOG GONE, OOPS.
RHETORICAL WHY (because)
One (1) way that we ensure we are matching the context/meaning of a sentence in ASL...
Conceptual accuracy
How English speakers think a language should be structured.
What are Prescriptive Rules?
The handshape we use to indicate my, your, his, hers
What is the 5 handshape?
The non-manual used to show that something happened a long time ago or won't be happening for a long time.
What is puffed cheeks?
The parameter difference between the sign THOUSAND and MILLION...
MOVEMENT
Tab, Dez, Sig
Hold, Movement, Hold
What is the Stokoe system and the Liddell and Johnson method?
The structure English uses and an example:
Subject-Verb-Object (SVO)
I like ASL.
Phonemes are the smallest unit of sound to make a meaningful difference to a word. Ex Tree. /trEE/ phonetic spelling.
Morphemes are basic units of meaning within words. A tree is a free morpheme and has its meaning.
Tree - a woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.
What is the difference between a phoneme and a morpheme? Provide examples.
Signs that look like what they represent. Provide 2 examples
What are Iconic Signs?
DRINK, PHONE
We use this to pluralize a pronoun when we know the number of people.
What is numeral incorporation?
ASL can show spatial relationships by using ___________
What are classifiers?
The parameter difference between CLEAN, PAPER, and NICE...
MOVEMENT
For each sign listed below find another sign with the same parameters for handshape, movement, and location.
CLEAN(HS)
DRINK (M)
BOOK (L)
CLEAN - YOURS,
DRINK - BORROW,
BOOK - COFFEE
Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, and Adverbs, are all part of the ______ ____________ ____________.
What are open lexical categories?
_________ is an affix or a bound morpheme that is added to the beginning of a word or a morpheme. E.g. unhappy.
On the other hand, ______ is a bound morpheme that is attached at the end of a root word. E.g. happiness.
What is the difference between Prefixes and Suffixes?
The types of rules that show us how a linguistic system works.
What are Descriptive Rules?
We use this movement to show the pluralization of pronouns when we don't know how many people.
What is an arc/sweep movement? - WE, OUR, GROUP
This must be stated prior to using a classifier.
What is the noun?
Phonology in ASL is...
The parameters of a sign.
The four (4) examples of morphological changes in ASL...
Noun-Verb Pairs, Compound Signs, Lexicalized Fingerspelling, Numeral Incorporation
Pronouns, Modal Verbs, Prepositions, and Conjunctions are all part of the _________ ___________ ___________.
What are closed lexical categories?
The most important thing to consider/think about when trying to sign a sentence...
CONTEXT/MEANING
Types of signs that do not look like what they represent. Provide two examples
What are Arbitrary signs?
LOVE, APPLE
_______ morpheme - Reliable, Picture
_______ morpheme - UNdo, CarS
What are some examples of Free and Bound morphemes?
A way that we can indicate the pluralization of a classifier with numeral incorporation.
What is using a specific number classifier or by using a 4-CL or 5-CL and using both hands together?
These are _________ _______ _________ ______: Identifying parts of signs, writing ASL, Notation methods: Glossing, Transcription, Translation.
What are the tools for analyzing ASL?
The formation of the lexicalized fingerspelled sign #NO is a ___________ __________.
Hint: Processes of building signs.
What is an example of a derivational process?
Subject Verb Object (SVO) is the __________ ________ _________ in ASL.
The Father loves his child.
FATHER LOVE CHILD.
What is the basic word order in ASL?
__________ _________ is how sentences show who did what to whom, with whom, or for whom. examples: Agent, patient, experiencer, instrument, cause.
CAT CHASE DOG.
DOOR, KEY (open).
What is a semantic role?
What is Dominance Condition?
Term for this sign "1" - Tom there. He go store now.
When the classifier shows the movement or action of something, it functions as a ________________
What is a verb?
______________________ is the ability to communicate spatial and temporal information while _____________ of _______________ is the fundamental language phenomenon that uses phonemes and morphemes to produce a sentence consisting of phrases and clauses.
What is Displacement, Duality, and Patterning?
__________ _________ is different from derivational morphology. DM is about the creation of new units, while __________ _______ is the process of adding grammatical information to units that already exist. -s, -ing
What is inflectional morphology?
What is the difference between Plain verbs and Indicating verbs? Give examples.
Plain verbs are produced in a static location that cannot be altered without changing the meaning of the sign. EAT, ENJOY, LOVE.
Indicating verbs move toward specific people, objects, or spatial locations, and in doing this, they incorporate additional information about the subject and object of the sentence. I LOVE YOU. GIVE ME. TAKE THAT.
Example: last night I watched Netflix and fell asleep on the couch.
Next week I'm going on vacation.
What are functions words?
This feature of ASL is when you modulate verbs to show duration and frequency.
What are temporal aspects?