Intro to Human Language Flashcards: Sign Language

What linguistic properties do signed languages have?

phonology, morphology, and syntax

______________ is NOT a basic feature of Sign Language

jumping (out of handshape, palm orientation, and facial expression)

Sign languages can have:

different dialects, different registers, and different accents.

Sign Language is universal:

false

The Nicaraguan Sign Language is:

a sign language spontaneously developed by deaf children in schools in Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s

The tip-of-the-finger state demonstrates a separation between semantics and phonology during language production.

true

During a tip-of-the-finger state, signers cannot retrieve a sign (correspondent to a word in spoken languages):

true