Question | Answer |
What is processing time? | Refers to the interval between an interpreter’s perceiving a message and conveying it |
ASL is... | a natural language with an autonomous grammar that is completely independent from the grammar of English and from the systems devised to represent English manually |
What do interpreters incorporate when dealing with English-based sign systems? | ASL features, Fingerspelling |
Linguistic Transfer is... | encoding of English in ASL |
What is Code Mixing? | ASL dominant signers inserting the English verb to be or adding a signed version of the suffix ness as in deafness |
What is Code Switching? | Changing from ASL signing to English based signing (convenient for including English idioms) |
What is Lexical Borrowing? | Fingerspelling undergoes changes that take on characteristics of signs such as letter deletion, hand shapes modified, location change |
What is English Mouthing? | Articulation of an English word, which is intended to facilitate lip-reading, clarify the accompanying sign, or both. |
What is ASL Mouthing? | Related to ASL lexical items, to clarify the sign, particularly in the case of ASL adverbials |
What is Reduced English Mouthing? | Mouth configurations between the extremes of full English mouthing and ASL mouthing |