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American Sign Language
Linguistics:
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Common: Location Orientation Movement (differ in hand- shape) |
Common: Handshape Location Orientation (differ in movement)
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Common: Handshape Orientation Movement (differ in location ) |
Common: Orientation Handshape (differ in location, move- Ment)
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Common: Handshape Location Orientation Movement |
Brave/Strong ( handshape modified) Cafeteria/ Bachelor/ Restaurant |
Dance/Read Again/Often Beer/Brown Fish/Blue Computer/Church Tired/Have Almost/Easy Other/Ten French Fries/”99” Keep/”Type of” More/Lost Surprise/Wake-up (differ in facial expression) Strike match/Cost Think/Cents Work/Habit Pea Brain/Government (coincidence?) |
Mother/Father Grandmother/ Grandfather |
School/Paper Leave/And Taste/Prefer |
Interesting/Like Please/Enjoy (differ in # of hands) Cute/Sugar (differ in facial express- ion) Apply(run for)/ Shirt Gold/California Glasses/Gallaudet During/Parallel Ugly/Dry (facial expression)
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Notice that I did not include noun/verb pairs that are similar/related in meaning (e.g.: “sit/chair”, “drive/car”), or words of similar meanings with initialized differences (e.g.: “math/algebra/geometry”). Right or wrong, intentional or not, I believe that I see the “shape” of words/thoughts instead of individual signs.
References
Nakamura, Karen. (2002, March 28) Sign Language Linguistics. About American Sign Language. Deaf Resource Library. Retrieved 26, Oct. 2004 <http://www.deaflibrary.org/asl.html>.