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  2. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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    For example, this would be changing 'watch' to 'watches' or 'watching.' In ASL, the sign may remain unchanged as WATCH, or the meaning may change based on NMM (Non-Manual-Markers). ASL morphology demonstrates reduplication and indexicality as well.

  3. American manual alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The phonetics of verbal speech and sign language are similar because spoken dialect uses tone of voice to determine someone's mood and Sign Language uses facial expressions to determine someone's mood as well. Phonetics does not necessarily only relate to spoken language but it can also be used in American Sign Language (ASL) as well.

  4. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    In American Sign Language (ASL), inflection is conveyed through facial expressions, body movements, and other non-manual markers. For instance, to indicate past tense in ASL, one might sign the present tense of a verb (such as "walk"), and then add a facial expression and head tilt to signify that the action occurred in the past (i.e., "walked").

  5. Stokoe notation - Wikipedia

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    Stokoe notation (/ ˈ s t oʊ k i / STOH-kee) is the first [1] phonemic script used for sign languages.It was created by William Stokoe for American Sign Language (ASL), with Latin letters and numerals used for the shapes they have in fingerspelling, and iconic glyphs to transcribe the position, movement, and orientation of the hands.

  6. ILY sign - Wikipedia

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    The sign is an informal expression of any of several positive feelings, ranging from general esteem to love, for the recipient of the sign.A similar-looking but unrelated variation in which the thumb is toward the palm appears in heavy metal music culture as a "horns" hand-sign (though the thumbs extended version is sometimes used) and in college football as a sign of support for various teams ...

  7. 'Barbie' with ASL: What to know about the film version and ...

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    As Barbie and her friends attempt to rescue Barbie Land from threats, Hanaumi signs in sync with the characters, offering an immersive watching experience for deaf audiences that goes far beyond ...

  8. Hamburg Notation System - Wikipedia

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    The Hamburg Sign Language Notation System (HamNoSys) is a transcription system for all sign languages (including American sign language). It has a direct correspondence between symbols and gesture aspects, such as hand location, shape and movement. [1] It was developed in 1984 at the University of Hamburg, Germany. [2]

  9. Fingerspelling - Wikipedia

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    Fingerspelling has been introduced into certain sign languages by educators and as such has some structural properties that are unlike the visually motivated and multi-layered signs that are typical in deaf sign languages. In many ways fingerspelling serves as a bridge between the sign language and the oral language that surrounds it.