ASL Final 1st semester Flashcards
What are the 5 parameters of ASL?
Palm orientation Handshape Location Movement Non-manual signals
Why are NMS/facial expressions important?
- Grammar
- Indicates the sentence type.
Are classifiers signs? Give examples.
No, classifiers are handshapes that represent objects, people, animals, descriptions, locations… CL:3, CL:1, CL:5, etc.
What is the difference between pathological (medical) and a cultural view of deafness?
- Medical = broken, needs to be fixed,
- cultural=view in positive light, successful if can’t hear, Deaf have culture
What is Deixis?
Pointing with the index finger
What are the 2 types of name signs?
Arbitrary & Descriptive
Give some examples of number types.
Cardinal, Ordinal, Age, Money, Time
Give some examples of sentence types.
Yes/No, Statement, “Wh” question, Topic comment, time-topic, rhetorical
What is CODA?
Hearing Child of Deaf Adult
What is DPN and when did it happen?
“Deaf President Now” Protest in Spring 1988
How is fingerspelling used in ASL?
For proper nouns: names of people, places, and things
Which 2 sign languages formed ASL?
French & Martha’s Vineyard
What is Audism?
Discrimination against deaf or hard of hearing
What is Audism?
Discrimination against deaf or hard of hearing
What are the different forms of schooling for the Deaf?
Residential Schools, Mainstreaming
What is the Rochester Method?
Fingerspell everything
How do make a negative statement in ASL?
Head shake no or sign NOT
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Founder of American School for the
Deaf who brought Laurent Clerc to America
Laurent Clerc
1st Deaf teacher in America, moved from France
Helen Keller
deaf and blind author & speaker
Marlee Matlin
Grammy award actress
Heather Whitestone
Miss America
Dummy Hoy
pro baseball player
What did Gallaudet Football contribute to the sport?
The Huddle – Paul Hubbard
How do you get a Deaf person’s attention?
Tap on shoulder or wave hand across the room or flash lights
If your path is blocked by two signers and there is no other route to take what do you do?
Go ahead and walk through
The least effective way to communicate with Deaf is what?
Speech and lipreading
ASL was formed from what?
French Sign Language and Martha’s Vinyard Sign Language
Describe how Deaf people may do these things differently than hearing people.
-Goodbyes
(Long, may hug again and again)
-Conversation environment
(Walk through 2 signers if they block a pathway)
-Talk on the phone
(Use TTY (older tech) Relay Service, Video Phone
(VP), text, video apps)
-Wake up in the morning
(Alarm Clocks vibrate or flash lights)
One should always watch what of the other person signing?
their face and hands
define audism (noun)
the notion that one is superior based on one’s ability to hear and speak, or behave in the manner of one who hears and speaks
What type of discrimination does audism relate to?
Discriminating someone because of their race.
what always goes at the beginning of a sentence?
when somethings going to happen:
- Time - Days of the week - Past and Future Tenses - Months of the year - Years - Dates
Give an example of a personal pronoun in ASL.
I, ME,YOU, HE/SHE/IT, WE, YOU,THEY
what is Diexis?
pointing of the finger
Give me an example of a possessive pronoun in ASL.
MY, YOUR, HIS/HER/IT’S, OURS, THEIRS
The role of facial expressions or non-manual markers is what in ASL?
grammer
ASL is traditionally handed down from generation to generations through:
Deaf family members and deaf schools
WH questions are used with eyebrows down or up?
WH eyebrows down
Yes/no questions are used with eyebrows down or up?
eyebrows up
The cultural perspective of deafness, or big “D” refers to what?
Deaf have a culture and part of a community, viewed in a positive life
The medical/pathological perspective of deafness, or little “d” refers to what?
- Viewed in a negative light
- Deaf person is “broken” and needs to be fixed
What is the name of the woman who was Deaf who won Miss America in 1985?
Heather Whitestone
what is audism?
the notion that one is superior based on one’s ability to hear and speak, or behave in the manner of one who hears and speaks
What type of discrimination does audism relate to?
Discriminating someone because of their race.
Who invented the football huddle at Gallaudet University?
Paul Hubbard
What is the name of the famous Deaf baseball player?
William “Dummy” Hoy
What is the name of the person who was against sign language and taught Deaf to speak?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who is one of the founding fathers of ASL and established the first School for the Deaf in America?
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Who was the Deaf French teacher, and one of the founding fathers of ASL, who established the first School for the Deaf in America?
Laurent Clerc
What does ++ mean after a word in glossing?
Sign the word again
What does a hyphen(-) mean in glossing?
One sign for two words
Classifiers make up what percent of ASL
60%
