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ASL 2
Advanced
Grammar & Culture
Welcome! Lecture
day- please clear
off your desks- no
phones needed
Reduplication
Seen in several
Noun-Verb Pairs in ASL
Verbs-move slow and once
Nouns-undergo reduplication: repeated and faster
Examples:
To-Fly vs. Airplane
To-Sit vs. Chair
Non-Manual Signals in
ASL include anything
conveyed beyond the
use of hand signs
NMS
ASL NMS
Face
Mouth (oo, mm, cha, cs, “th”,
...)
*mouth morphemes often
show “intensity” or “degree”
Eyes (eye gaze, squint, ...)
Eyebrows (raised, lowered…)
Nose (e.g. crinkled=yes)
Tongue (e.g. Not-Yet)
Head
Upper Body
Shoulder
Shrug (e.g. shy, …)
Role Shift movement
Etc…
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Parameters
in ASL
HANDSHAPE
PALM ORIENTATION
MOVEMENT
LOCATION
NON-MANUAL SIGNALS
Parameters: can
be compared
similar to
individual
sounds
Minimal Pairs: Two words or signs that are identical
except for ONE change; & this changes the meaning
(minimally distinctive)
English- Pat, Bat, Sat
ASLFATHER, MOTHER, FINE
(location)
NAME, WEIGHT, KNIFE; SCHOOL, PAPER, CLEAN
(movement)
HOME, DEAF, YESTERDAY
(handshape)
LATE, NOT-YET
(non-manual signal)
THING, CHILDREN
(palm orientation)
ASL Uses Space!!!
Know what is Neutral Space in ASL,
and the different “planes” we
generally use when signing
Deixis- know this concept
(establishing referents)In ASL, we generally do this through
indexing (pointing) and eye gaze
Movement
ASL can use both non-manual signals
and movement in space to
simultaneously add meaning “on top of”
signs, Movement changes to indicate
person, number, etc.- often through
certain verb types
Links to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language/Grammar_1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language_grammar
Movement can change meaning:
e.g. MORNING; EVERY-MORNING; ALL-MORNING
Verb Types in ASL
p. 37 SN Level 2
Plain/Uninflectedbasic verb e.g. TO-LIVE,
TO-DIE, TO-UNDERSTAND
Inflecting Verbs
e.g. THROW-UP
(may have a plain/uninflected form, e.g. TO-THROW-UP (once)
Recurring Inflection: repetitions (e.g. several times a day, every
Monday)
Continuous Inflection: repeated circular movement (e.g. continuously
with little interruption- the whole hour, all morning, all week long)
Spatial/Agreement Verbs
(person, number) e.g. TO-SHOW, TO-GIVE, etc…
Multiple Meanings in
ASL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=202-hHdEyeM
Conceptual Accuracy- remember to use this in
ASL
Residential vs. Mainstreaming in Deaf Education- law and timeline
handout (I will have copies again if you need them)
Lexicalized signs vs.
Loan Signs
Lexicalized signs- #fun, #what, #style
True loan signs- from another language, eg.
CHINA, KOREA, etc.
Classifier types in ASL
You need to recognize these classifier types.
An excellent resource for this is found on
ASL University’s website:
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/c/classifiers.htm
My PPT on classifiers- sample test questions
Tests for this six weeks,
&Final Exam Information
1. Tomorrow (Friday)--- Written fingerspelling tips
(see bellworks and side board);Unit 17 signs
2. Composition book test- including 4 practice
tests, the self-assessment fingerspelling grid, and
Bellworks.
3. Fingerspelling test- 1 on 1 signed to me- by Monday in class
Final Exam (I will have review sheets online and printed next week):
*Written cumulative culture/grammar multiple choice/true false
*A signed portion-cumulative – you watch the video of me signing,
and choose the correct sentence (A-D)
*Remember, you need to know Units 1-17 signs for the final exam 
My webpage has links to videoshttp://schools.birdvilleschools.net/Page/23472
The End! Great
Job!