ASL Vocabulary
ASL means...
American Sign Language
SVO is...
Subject, verb, object
Dominant/non dominant...
The hand that you usually use vs the hand that you barely use
Deaf Culture...
Mouth movement, flicking the lights
Mouth Morphemes...
Big-CHA
Finish-FSH
Pidgin is...
Contact Sign Language
Initializations...
Ex: Family, uncle, aunt, cousin, class, group, team
Cold Switching...
Change the convo but keep the same energy
4 pairs of letters w/ same sign...
k+p, i+j, g+q, and h+a
Recognize #1-5...
Forward hand shape
NMM is...
Non-Manual Markers
Iconic signs...
House, book
Body shifting...
shifting your body to the person you're conversating with
Yes/No facial expression...
affirmation/negation
directionality
eyebrows up
yes/no
go to/give me
6-10
Backward movement
NMS is...
Non-Manual Signals
3:car
1: a person walking
5 parameters of signing...
Location, movement, hand shape, palm orientation, and facial expression
wh/ questions...
eyebrows down
11-20...
Backwards and shaking movement
ASL Grammar
TTC(Time Topic Comment)
eye gazing...
telling someone that you're not finished with your conversation/ WAIT
Facial expressions...
Angry, sad
indexing...
possession...
He/she
his/hers