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Sign Language Interpreting: Exploring It's Art And Science

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What is processing time?   Refers to the interval between an interpreter’s perceiving a message and conveying it  
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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  
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What do interpreters incorporate when dealing with English-based sign systems?   ASL features, Fingerspelling  
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Linguistic Transfer is...   encoding of English in ASL  
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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  
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What is Code Switching?   Changing from ASL signing to English based signing (convenient for including English idioms)  
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What is Lexical Borrowing?   Fingerspelling undergoes changes that take on characteristics of signs such as letter deletion, hand shapes modified, location change  
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What is English Mouthing?   Articulation of an English word, which is intended to facilitate lip-reading, clarify the accompanying sign, or both.  
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What is ASL Mouthing?   Related to ASL lexical items, to clarify the sign, particularly in the case of ASL adverbials  
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What is Reduced English Mouthing?   Mouth configurations between the extremes of full English mouthing and ASL mouthing  
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