Linguistics of American Sign Language: A Resource Text for ASL UsersThe standard introduction on ASL structure, now expanded with more information on linguistic fundamentals. |
Contents
PART TWO PHONOLOGY | 3 |
Signs Have Parts | 50 |
The Stokoe System | 56 |
Copyright | |
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agreement verbs allophones American Sign Language ASL signs aspect basic bilinguals black deaf community black deaf individuals body bound morphemes cheremes chin classifier predicates code-switching compound contact signing contrast deaf culture deaf interviewer described dialects discourse marker discussed dyad epenthesis episode example FIGURE fingerspelled sign fish free morphemes French Sign Language function Gallaudet Gallaudet University gloss guage hand configuration handshape hearing hold index finger indicates inflection interaction language contact lecture lexical items Liddell and Johnson linguistic locus meaning ment minimal pairs morphemes morphology move movement nonmanual signal noun occur orientation palm participants person phemes phonetic phonological pidgin pointing signs produced pronouns referent represent rules sentence sequence Signed English signer signing space sociolinguistic sounds spatial speaker specific speech spoken languages Stokoe Stokoe's SUPPLEMENTAL READING symbols syntactic talk thumb tion two-handed sign units users variation videotape