LING 2013LINGUISTICS I

NATHALIE F. MARTIN

Sign Language

Sign Language

Today: Video: “Beauty Beyond Words”Special guest speaker – Alyson

MacMillanDifferent facts about Sign language

Bible Tranlation and Written Sign Language?

Video : Wycliffe

http://www.wycliffe.org.uk/video/VIDEO3_512K_Stream.mov

DO YOU KNOW ANY WORDS?

Words and Expressions

CHALLENGE !!!

DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT SING LANGUAGES? YES, THERE ARE …

During this presentation we will speak of a few …

CHALLENGE: How many different sign languages can you

notice/find? Write them down to share at the end of class.

Manually coded English vs American Sign Language

Fingerspelling– ASL & British

Fingerspelling – Langue des signes français

Words

Lexicon:•http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm•http://www.lifeprint.com/ (ASL)•http://www.lsfplus.fr/dico.htm#B (French)

Terminology:http://www.lsf.univ-nancy2.fr/ (French)

Hand Configuration

Hand configuration is very important.

Not to be mistaken …

Langue des signes francaise

Orientation, Placement and Mouvement

Orientation, placement and mouvement are very important!

Langue des signes francaise

Orientation, Placement and Mouvement

Orientation, placement and mouvement are very important!

American Sign Language

Syntax

I + ask + PAST + John + for + the + card + plural

American Sign Language

Morphology

What about morphology? Do you think that learning sign language involves some kind of morphological knowledge?

Number – ex: singular or plural? Distributiontional aspects – ex: each, certain, etc. Temporal aspects – ex: for a long time, regularly, over and

over Temporal focus – ex: starting to, gradually, etc. Manner – ex: with ease, with difficulty, slowly Degree – ex: a little, a bit very, excessively Reciprocyty - Indicates mutual relationships or actions Index – changes person reference for verbs

American Sign Language

Verb Tense

British Sign Language

Verb Tense

Orientation, placement and mouvement are very important!

American Sign Language

Colloquialisms in Sign Language (ASL)

American Sign Language

Transcription of Sign Language

Hand shape = DEZ (designator)

Type of motion = SIG (signation)

Location = TAB (tabula)

Palm orientation = ORI

Web Sites

Websites (Sign languages of the world): • http://lsf.wikisign.org/wiki/Langue:Signes_du_Monde• Wycliffe:

http://www.wycliffe.ca/wordalive/pdf/wam_2009_summer-sample.pdf

• JAARS: http://www.wordsign.org/

Websites (ASL): • http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm• http://www.lifeprint.com/

LANGUAGE ACCQUISITION MATTERS

COMPARE HOW SOMEONE WOULD ACQUIRE SPOKEN LANGUAGE VERSUS SIGN LANGUAGE.

What would be similar?What would be different?

CHALLENGE !!!

CHALLENGE: How many different sign languages did

you notice/find during this presentation?