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  2. 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 ]

  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. American Sign Language phonology - Wikipedia

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    Sign languages such as American Sign Language (ASL) are characterized by phonological processes analogous to those of oral languages. Phonemes serve the same role between oral and signed languages, the main difference being oral languages are based on sound and signed languages are spatial and temporal. [1]

  5. 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 ]

  6. ‘Word of the Lord.’ Local houses of worship for the Deaf ...

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    In American Sign Language, folks are often given a “name sign” or nickname to identify them quickly, without having to spell out each letter of a full name.

  7. Nim Chimpsky - Wikipedia

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    Neam "Nim" Chimpsky [1] (November 19, 1973 – March 10, 2000) was a chimpanzee used in a study to determine whether chimps could learn a human language, American Sign Language (ASL). The project was led by Herbert S. Terrace of Columbia University with linguistic analysis by psycholinguist Thomas Bever.

  8. List of sign languages - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language: United States and Canada: ASL is also officially recognized as a language in Canada due to the passage of Bill C-81, the Accessible Canada Act. Black American Sign Language is a dialect of ASL. Argentine Sign Language: Spain and Italy [citation needed] (Lengua de Señas Argentina – LSA) Bay Islands Sign Language ...

  9. New FDA rules for TV drug ads: Simpler language and no ... - AOL

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    Those ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look: New rules require drugmakers to be clearer and more direct when ...