What is Language?
Humans need this in order to communicate?
What is language?
When both hands have the same handshape and movement to produce a sign.
What is Symmetry Condition?
These two individuals established the first Deaf school in the United States.
Who is Thomas Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc?
The types of rules that show us how a linguistic system works.
What are Descriptive Rules?
The scientific study of a language.
What is linguistics?
The dominant hand produces the sign while the non-dominant hand serves as a base.
The name of the first Deaf School in America?
What is the Connecticut Asylum OR What is American School for the Deaf?
How English speakers think a language should be structured.
What are Prescriptive Rules?
Without this, we would not have a useful communication system.
What are rules?
Signs that look like what they represent. Provide 2 examples
This child inspired Thomas Gallaudet to learn sign language.
Languages and other communication systems are composed of this.
What are symbols?
Types of signs that do not look like what they represent. Provide two examples
What are Arbitrary signs?
ASL is rooted in this language.
What is French Sign Language?
The number of basic handshapes the passive hand could be when a sign follows the dominance condition.
What is 7?
The first Deaf school in America was established in this year.
What is 1817?