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How do you sign LINGUISTICS in ASL?

Published on Feb 10, 2016

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How do you sign LINGUISTICS in ASL?

Michael Olivier ~ Silent Weekend 2015
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a little bit about myself...

objectives

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Untitled Slide

what is your sign for...

sociolinguistics

Phonology

Thanks to William C. Stokoe

*Invented the first system for describing signs

minimal pairs

phonological processes

Liddell and Johnson (1989) and Lucas et al. (2001) 

movement epenthesis

hold reduction

metathesis

ME or HR?

assimilation

weak hand deletion

identical action

(look for weak hand deletion)

Morphology

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Lexicalized Fingerspelling

Lexicalization in English?

Think FAST!

  • Groups of 2
  • Come up with as many lexicalized fingerspelled signs as possible!
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8 Changes of the Lexicalization Process

Syntax/Semantics

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classifiers vs. depiction

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