Transcript American Sign Language

Sign Language
LING 2013
LINGUISTICS I
NATHALIE F. MARTIN
Sign Language
Today:
 Video:
“Beauty Beyond Words”
 Special guest speaker – Alyson MacMillan
 Different facts about Sign language
Bible Tranlation
and Written Sign Language?
 Video : Wycliffe
http://www.wycliffe.org.uk/video/VIDEO3_512K_Stream.mov
Words and Expressions
DO YOU KNOW ANY WORDS?
CHALLENGE !!!
 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE MANY
DIFFERENT SING LANGUAGES?
 During
YES, THERE ARE …
this presentation we will speak of a few …
CHALLENGE:
 How many different sign languages can you
notice/find?
 Write them down to share at the end of class.
 Manually coded English vs American Sign Language
Fingerspelling– ASL & British
Fingerspelling – Langue des signes français
Words
Lexicon:
• http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
• http://www.lifeprint.com/ (ASL)
• http://www.lsfplus.fr/dico.htm#B (French)
Terminology:
 http://www.lsf.univ-nancy2.fr/ (French)
Hand Configuration
 Hand configuration is very important.
Not to be mistaken …
Langue des signes francaise
Orientation, Placement and Mouvement
 Orientation, placement and mouvement are very
important!
Langue des signes francaise
Orientation, Placement and Mouvement
 Orientation, placement and mouvement are very
important!
American Sign Language
Syntax
 I + ask + PAST + John + for + the + card + plural
American Sign Language
Morphology
 What about morphology? Do you think that learning sign
language involves some kind of morphological
knowledge?
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Number – ex: singular or plural?
Distributiontional aspects – ex: each, certain, etc.
Temporal aspects – ex: for a long time, regularly, over and over
Temporal focus – ex: starting to, gradually, etc.
Manner – ex: with ease, with difficulty, slowly
Degree – ex: a little, a bit very, excessively
Reciprocyty - Indicates mutual relationships or actions
Index – changes person reference for verbs
American Sign Language
Verb Tense
British Sign Language
Verb Tense
 Orientation, placement and mouvement are very
important!
American Sign Language
Colloquialisms in Sign Language (ASL)
American Sign Language
Transcription of Sign Language
 Hand shape = DEZ
(designator)
 Type of motion = SIG
(signation)
 Location = TAB (tabula)
 Palm orientation = ORI
Web Sites
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Websites (Sign languages of the world):
http://lsf.wikisign.org/wiki/Langue:Signes_du_Monde
• Wycliffe:http://www.wycliffe.ca/wordalive/pdf/wam_2009_sum
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mer-sample.pdf
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JAARS: http://www.wordsign.org/
Websites (ASL):
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
• http://www.lifeprint.com/
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LANGUAGE ACCQUISITION MATTERS
 COMPARE HOW SOMEONE WOULD ACQUIRE
SPOKEN LANGUAGE VERSUS
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SIGN LANGUAGE.
What would be similar?
What would be different?
CHALLENGE !!!
CHALLENGE:
How many different sign languages did you
notice/find during this presentation?