ASL 1

Warm Up Spring semester

Wh questions my eyebrows go

down

yes/no questions my eyebrows go

up

where do wh question words go in ASL sentence?

the end

When a signer doubles numbers like 22 and 33 your hand should

bounce w/ palm down

before you give a location in ASL you must sign __________ or __________.

here or there

word order for command involving objects

Location, object (raise eyebrows) Person + Action

Douglas Tilden was a famous Deaf

Sculptor

What are the mouth morphemes for the following:

1. Large

2. medium

3. small

1. cha

2. mm

3. oo

What are the mouth morphemes for the following distances:

1. close too

2. medium distance

3. far away

1. cs

2. mm

3. ah

what was Douglas Tilden referred to as? when he became an art professor at a hearing collage how did he plan to communicate with his students?

• Michalango of the American west

• “I do not plan to talk to them, I plan to make them work.”

a listener was signers perspective which means the listener looks at a description through the signers eyes. The listeners has to mentally flip the description.

True

in Asl is it appropriate to answer a yes/no question w/ just a “yes” or “no” response?

No you should always answer w/ an explanation

Female signs always start at the

chin

Male signs always start at the

Forehead

for most double digets #s the second # ______________ (movement)

Falls forward

what is the first thing you should sign when giving directions to something on the same floor?

leave the classroom

When giving directions to something on a different floor, what is the first thing you should sign?

down or up

the only Parameter that is different for these signs is the movement. Describe the movement for:

1. Money

2. Buy

3. Shopping

1. up down tapping

2. once forward

3. multiple movements forward

BLACK

1. Handshape

2. location

3. palm orientation

4. movement

5. non-manual signals

1. one

2. forehand

3. down

4. swipe

5. none

is ASL universal? How many sign languages do you think there are world wide?

• No

  • As Many spoken languages more than 300

When signing the pledge we interpreted “pledge Allegiance” to mean __________ __________ in ASL.

Promise Support

List 3 characteristics of black ASL

• signs are higher on head

• 2 handed signs

• more facial expression

what is the least effective way to ask for ASL sign?

fingerspelling

How should you sign a word you don’t know?

ask the opposite

what the sign for opposite

1s together apart

me, you, she, they, as, are all ___________ pronouns

Personal

my, your, hers, their, ours are all____ pronouns

Possessive

Gloss: My house is green

POSS-my HOUSE GREEN

Gloss: I like the color green

COLOR GREEN Ix-me LIKE

How do you gloss my and me

POSS-MY

IX-ME

Gloss: He is my son

BOY Ix-HE POSS-MY SON

Gloss: I live in France

Ix-ME LIVE Ix-LOC FRANCE

What is the name of the first deaf man on Martha’s Vineyard

Jonathan Lambert

What sign means Something dose not exist?

none

When signing a yes/no question you should?

• eyebrows up

• lean forward

• hold last sign

• start/end w/ point

The sign FRUIT and vegetables are both signed where?

the cheek

Double-digit numbers where both digests are 6,7,8,9 are called

Rolling #s

Where is Martha’s vineyard?

east cost off the cost of Massachusetts

what is it know for

Vacation place for the rich

What side of the island is the town of Chilmark?

west side

when you sign “__ years old “ you should incorporate into the sign for ____

old

which Parameter is different:

1. mom/ grandma

2. mom/ dad

3. old/ how old

4. family / class

5. want / not wants

6. promise / fall in love

7. mine / yours

1. movement

2. location

3. non-manual signals + movement

4. Handshape

5. movement + non manual

6. handshape + movement

7. palm orientation

small #s: twist __ to larger numbers

larger #s: twist ___ to smaller numbers

-up

-down

We rank siblings (show birth order) on our ________ hand

non-dominate

when ranking siblings the oldest is always first and the youngest is always last

true

When signing ages we touch our _______ with our ______ finger

chin

pointer

The letter A,E and O must be sign _____ if it come after a J.

side ways

Describe how you sign “I” and “U” after the letter J

Towards then away from you

What fo you know about Marie Jean Philips?

• she graduated from Highschool early

• attended a hearing school in collage

for possive pronouns we use a closed s/ flat handshape possive pronouns are yours, my, his, her, their, ours

true

What are the parameters for the sign “still”?

1. handshape- y

2. movement- down slide

3. location- open space

4. palm orientation- towards/ doen

5. no non-manual signals