Question | Answer |
What are symbols? | Words or signs that represent something else. |
What do members of a community share to form a language? | Symbols and grammatical signals. |
What are the building blocks of a spoken language? | Sounds, words, sentences, speeches, texts, etc. |
What does it mean if a sign is arbitrary? | The form of the symbol and its meaning share nothing in common. |
What does it mean if a sign is iconic? | The form of the symbol represents something specific. |
What are the parameters of a sign? | Handshape, palm orientation, location, movement, non-manual markers. |
What is symmetry condition? | Two-handed signs moving independently with the same handshape. |
What is dominance condition? | The dominant hand ususally moves, each hand has a different handshape and the passive hand is one of the BASCO15 handshapes. |
What is an example of dominance condition? | soda |
What is an example of symmetry condition? | play |
What are the marked handshapes? | X, 7, R, T, E, 8 |
What are the unmarked handshapes? | B, A, S, C, O, 1, 5 |
What are the factors that cause variations in ASL? | Region, race, gender, age, context |
What is perseverative assimilation? | The first sign influences the second sign. |
What is an example of perseverative assimilation? | INFORM |
What is fluidity? | A compound sign. |
What is an example of fluidity? | WIFE |
What is another name for a fingerspelled loan sign? | Lexicon |
What can pronouns do in ASL? | Represent something else, describe a characteristic and show ownership. |
What is eye indexing? | Using the eyes to communicate about a particular subject. |
What do classifiers do in ASL? | Represent nouns, pluralization, show size, shape, depth and texture, and give signer perspective. |
When using classifiers, what do two hands alternating movement mean? | Unorganized arrangement. |
When using classifiers, what does it mean if the non-dominant hand acts as a place-holder? | Organized arrangement. |
When using classifiers, what does it mean if there is a sweeping motion used to describe something? | Shows things in a row. |
What are the sentence types in ASL discussed in class? | Statements, questions, commands, conditionals, assertion, negation and topicalization. |
What is the needed grammar for a yes/no question? | Brow raise/widened eyes, head tilt |
What is the needed grammar for a WH question? | Brow squint, head tilt |
How many parts are there to a conditional sentence? | Two |