Sign Language

Question 1

Sign Language

Answer 1

A linguistics system that is perceived visually and produced through hand movements and facial expression.

Question 2

Signed Language

Answer 2

The expression of language in the manual-visual mode.

Question 3

Homesign

Answer 3

A gestural communication system for interactions with a deaf family member. A kind of pidgin unique to each family.

Question 4

Village Sign

Answer 4

A sign language used by both deaf and hearing members of a community with a high incidence of deafness.

Question 5

Deaf Community Sign Language

Answer 5

A sign language that naturally emerges whenever a group of unrelated deaf individuals is brought together to form a community

Question 6

Oral-aural mode

Answer 6

Transmission from mouth to ear.

Question 7

Manual-Visual mode

Answer 7

Transmission from hand to eye.

Question 8

Signed English

Answer 8

An artificial sign language for use in the classroom that uses ASL signs in English word order. Created to bridge the gap between ASL and learning to read.

Question 9

Prosody

Answer 9

Fluctuations of intonation, stress, and rhythm in speech.

Question 10

Visual Prosody

Answer 10

Facial expressions and body movements that convey an extra layer of meaning in a signed language

Question 11

Nonmanual Markers

Answer 11

Conventionalized expressions of the face and movements of the head that convey specific meanings in signed languages.

Question 12

Signing Space

Answer 12

The three-dimensional space within arms’ reach in front of the signer.

Question 13

Referential Locus

Answer 13

A region of the signing space that serves as a referring expression during a discourse.

Question 14

Verb Agreement

Answer 14

The incorporation of referential loci in the signing of verbs.

Question 15

Verb Aspect

Answer 15

The temporal flow of the event expressed by a verb. Signers modify the movement of a sign to indicate aspect.

Question 16

Layering

Answer 16

The expression of multiple morphemes within a single sign. Give an example a single sign that expresses 5 morpheme/meanings.
Help sign with tongue protruding moving from Mike’s space to Megan’s (Mike was carelessly helping Megan).

Question 17

Iconicity

Answer 17

The degree to which a symbol resembles its referent.

Question 18

Sign Language Advantage

Answer 18

Observation that infants can produce their first signed word earlier than they can produce their first spoken word. Believed to occur because hand control develops earlier than mouth control.

Question 19

Bimodal Bilingual

Answer 19

Able to communicate in both spoken and signed language. Hearing children born to deaf parents.

Question 20

Codeblending

Answer 20

Discourse in which signed and spoken language are produced simultaneously.

Question 21

Oralism

Answer 21

An approach to deaf education that emphasizes spoken language instruction.

Question 22

Manualism

Answer 22

An approach to deaf education that emphasizes signed language.

Question 23

Speech Reading

Answer 23

Perception of spoken language by observing the movements of the face, lips, and tongue.
Those who are prelingually deaf:

Question 24

three reasons why the literacy skills of deaf students lag behind?

Answer 24

Late start in language
Poor phonological awareness
Significantly different vocabulary and grammatical structure

Question 25

Culture

Answer 25

A system of learned behaviors and thought processes shared by a group.

Question 26

Vertical Transmission

Answer 26

The learning of language and culture through interactions with parents and elders

Question 27

Horizontal Transmission

Answer 27

The learning of language and culture through interactions with peers (this is usually how we learned swear words too, depending on how vociferous your parents were).

Question 28

Medical Model

Answer 28

Deafness is a disability that needs to be remediated or eliminated whenever possible.

Question 29

Cultural Model

Answer 29

The position that deafness is within the normal range of human variation and provides an alternative experience that is visually oriented and centered on signed language.

Question 30

What are three values of ASL storytelling?

Answer 30

Cultural transmission of Deaf values and identity Develops new vocabulary Provides discourse models

Question 31

What are two common themes of Deaf humor?

Answer 31

The Deaf community member getting the upper hand over a member of the hearing community. Rejection of deafness as a disability.

Question 32

List 4 things Klima and Bellugi (1979) discovered in their study comparing Chinese sign language and American sign language.

Answer 32

Forms of some signs were identical in 2 signed languages but their meanings were different. Some forms in one language were possible in the other, but did not exist. Some signs in one language were simply impossible in the other. Handshapes were not always made in exactly the same way, this would be like a ‘foreign accent’ in sign language.