Chapter 3 glossary Flashcards
sign language linguists
scientists who study signs, its grammar, its words, and how people use signs in conversations
home signs
sign systems that were created by deaf children and their hearing families in order to communicate; home signs do not have a consistent meaning-symbol relationship or formal grammar and are not passed down from generation to generation
L1
a person’s dominant, most preferred, or first language
L2
a person’s second language, typically acquired after the critical period for language learning
non manual features
features of ASL that indicate question forms and negation, such as facial grammar and body language
certified deaf interpreter (CDI)
Deaf interpreters who provide a Deaf cultural perspective and specialized language translation skills
phonology
the study of the smallest unit of language
iconic
signs that look like what they mean
morphology
the study of how a language creates new words or signs
lexicalized sign
a sign that uses the fingerspelling of the word as its sign
loan sign
a fingerspelled sign that borrows from English
modality
the sensory path or channel by which the language is made and understood by its user
dialect
variations of languages that occur when one language comes into contact with another language or another group of users
