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American Sign Language literature (ASL literature) is one of the most important shared cultural experiences in the American deaf community.Literary genres initially developed in residential Deaf institutes, such as American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, [1] which is where American Sign Language developed as a language in the early 19th century. [2]
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 ]
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]
Clayton Valli (May 25, 1951 – March 7, 2003) was an American prominent deaf linguist and American Sign Language (ASL) poet whose work helped further to legitimize ASL and introduce people to the richness of American Sign Language literature.
Stokoe researched American Sign Language (ASL) extensively while he worked at Gallaudet University. He coined the term cherology , the equivalent of phonology for sign language. However, sign language linguists, of which he was the first, [ 11 ] now generally use the term "phonology" for signed languages.
American Sign Language: Beginner: Start with the basics like the alphabet, fingerspelling, simple vocab and even how to tell a short story in ASL.
After graduating, she attended Gallaudet University where she received dual bachelor's degrees in Drama and English, graduating in 1975. [ 2 ] Lentz has done research on American Sign Language (ASL) at several research institutions, including Northeastern University in Boston , the Salk Institute in San Diego , and the University of California ...
The interpretation flow is normally between a sign language and a spoken language that are customarily used in the same country, such as French Sign Language (LSF) and spoken French in France, Spanish Sign Language (LSE) to spoken Spanish in Spain, British Sign Language (BSL) and spoken English in the U.K., and American Sign Language (ASL) and ...