Exam 4: Sign Language and Code

Sign languages are not?

codes

Sign languages?

Differ from one another and are not mutually intelligible

Most signs have an?

Arbitrary relationship to their meaning

Primes are?

The fundamental elements of signed languages

Place/location?

Signs differ in meaning with respect to their location

To whisper in ASL one does?

Sign closer to the signer/s center and smaller in scope

Movement?

Different movement can mean different things

Handshapes are like?

A syllabary for sign language

Hand orientation?

The direction of your hand changes meaning

Example of non-manual markers?

Facial expression

Facial expressions can?

Soften or intensify meanings

Size of sign can mean?

Small or large, for example small or big mistake

How can you derive nouns from verbs in ASL?

Reduplicate the sign

You can show emphasis by?

Doing a one-handed sign with both hands

ASL does not have a?

Copula

English “my hair is wet”, in ASL is?

“my hair wet”

There are no what in ASL?

No articles

Topicalization is?

When the topic of the sentence is presented first and then followed by the sentence

ASL uses what as its main structure?

Topicalization

Topicalization can be indicated by?

Non-manual indications and shift in the body

In ASL personal pronouns are?

Indexic

Indexic means?

The signer points to a place in space that is set up as their referent

Time is established when?

At the beginning of a discourse and updated if needed

ASL makes heavy use of?

Time-sequenced ordering

Cryptology is?

The science of codes and ciphers

Eve in code breaking is?

The person trying to decipher the code

First type of cypher is?

Shift Cypher

Shift cypher is?

Replace the letters with a corresponding letter from an alphabet that had bee shifted some number of positions

Second type of cypher is?

Monoalphabetic Substitution

A monoalphabetic substitution is?

Translating a single letter into the same letter every time

Sherlock Holmes code was broken by?

Mapping the frequency of a letter and matching it with English and assuming the most frequent letter is the most frequent letter used in regular English doing this for the whole code. Then fixing it at the end