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Linguistics of ASL
Key Concepts
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Phonology
• Parts of Signs: handshape, location (starting and ending), movement, palm
orientation, NMS• Movement, Hold, Movement• Movement Epenthesis – “Father study”• Methathesis – interchangable movement,
“Deaf”, “home”• Asslimlation – sign takes on characteristics of
preceding or succeeding sign
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Morphology
• Morphemes – smallest units of meaning• Free or bound• Derivational morphology – NV pairs,
compounds (sister, believe, Bible), content ($3.00, 3 months)
• Inflectional morphology – temporal aspect, lexicalized fingerspelling
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Syntax
• Parts of speech – nouns, predicates, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns
• Sentence types – Y/N, WhQ, RQ, negation, commands, topic/comment, conditionals