Ch. 9

Question 1

True or False: Functional elements includes such things as articles, prepositions, and conjunctions.

Answer 1

true

Question 2

What component of a language helps listeners determine meaning and predict what the speaker will say next?

Answer 2

Prosody

Question 3

True or False: American Sign Language has a written form.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Name a challenge interpreters face when dealing with the time/tense markers linguistic differences

Answer 4

Recognizing time markers in ASL when interpreting A-E (often times those are helpful with transitions)

Question 5

Compare and contrast modalities of ASL and that of English

Answer 5

English: auditory/vocal
ASL: visual/spatial

Question 6

Instead of prepositions used in English, ASL uses

Answer 6

classifiers (but sometimes signs prep. for emphasis) and directional verbs

Question 7

What are SASSes?

Answer 7

size and shape specifiers (to help with descriptions of nouns)

Question 8

True or False: ASL pronouns are gender-neutral and number-neutral.

Answer 8

False: ASL is number-specific.

Question 9

True or False: There is only one kind of classifier

Answer 9

False

Question 10

True or False: English always follows SOV order

Answer 10

False