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  2. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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    Rightward Wh-movement Analysis in American Sign Language The rightward movement analysis is a newer, more abstract argument of how wh-movement occurs in ASL. The main arguments for rightward movement begin by analyzing spec-CP as being on the right, the wh-movement as being rightward, and as the initial wh-word as a base-generated topic. [ 58 ]

  3. American manual alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Like other languages, American Sign Language is constantly evolving. While changes in fingerspelling are less likely, slight changes still occur over time. The manual alphabet looks different today than it did merely decades ago. A prime example of this pattern of change is found in the "screaming 'E'".

  4. English, Fitz or Percy - Wikipedia

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    "English, Fitz or Percy" features another part of Michael Scofield's escape plan, involving the street names of the ones that are outside the infirmary section of the prison. Also, the case to exonerate Lincoln Burrows hits another twist, and agents Kellerman and Hale blackmail Warden Pope to have Scofield transferred out of Fox River State ...

  5. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language [5] that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features . [ 6 ]

  6. Classifier constructions in sign languages - Wikipedia

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    As it became more like a sign, it could also be used with non-animate referents, like apples or boxes. As a sign, the former classifier construction now conforms to the usual constraints of a word, such as consisting of one syllable. [44] The resulting sign must not be a simple sum of its combined parts, but can have a different meaning ...

  7. ASLwrite - Wikipedia

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    Stop sign mock-up in English (top) and ASL (bottom) ASLwrite (ASL: ) is a writing system that developed from si5s. [1] It was created to be an open-source, continuously developing orthography for American Sign Language (ASL), trying to capture the nuances of ASL's features.

  8. ASL-phabet - Wikipedia

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    ASL-phabet, or the ASL Alphabet, is a writing system developed by Samuel Supalla for American Sign Language (ASL). It is based on a system called SignFont, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which Supalla modified and streamlined for use in an educational setting with Deaf children.

  9. Initialized sign - Wikipedia

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    In sign language, an initialized sign is one that is produced with a handshape(s) that corresponds to the fingerspelling of its equivalent in the locally dominant oral language, based on the respective manual alphabet representing that oral language's orthography. The handshape(s) of these signs then represent the initial letter of their ...