ASL Unit 7

between

use this sign only when signing about time

wear

use this sign to sign about clothes

use

use this sign to sign about non-clothing items like glasses and shoes

topic comment

use this when describing clothing

spatial organization

visual way of organizing information into groups of related thoughts, actions, or details which uses shoulder-shift for each additional series of details

allowed captioning to become increasingly available

what has ADA done for captioning

lobbied to have captioning offered on tv, movies, etc

what has NAD done for captioning

helps the deaf learn english

what is a benefit of english codes and PSE?

grammar is ignored and doesn't make sense

what is a drawback of english codes and PSE

pidgin

when 2 separate, unrelated languages are mixed together

concept and context

when some signs are the same but have different meanings you need to use these

context

when the meaning of a single sign or word changes depending on how it is used in a sentence then that sign's meaning depends on....

english codes

aims to show every word, prefix, and suffix in spoken english using signs borrowed in ASL

code

artificial way of conveying information that must be memorized

location

change the ____ of the to shave sign to modify its meaning

movement parameter

changes nouns into verbs

degree of interference or borrowing from english

difference between PSE and ASL

turn-taking strategies

include closing signals, question-makers or WH-face, using the hold on sign, moving up your hands, using go on

billingual-bicultural approach

it emphasizes ASL and english as distinct and equally important languages and cultures

Americans with Disabilities Act

means ADA

national association of the deaf

means NAD

sign language continuum

means there is a wide variety of signing among people some using asl, other using PSE or SEE, or a combo of all

SEE

one code that represents each word in spoken or written english language

PSE

people who use asl signs in english word order and mouth english words matched to every sign

manually coded english

refers to any code representing the english language

noun-verb pairs

share every parameter except movement

x form

this type of shave is not used on the head

nouns

typically have a double back-n-forth movement

verbs

typically have one solid movement, or a wider back-n-forth movement than nouns