41. About ASL About American Sign Language by Karen Nakamura accesses since July 13, 1995. This page was last updated on March 28, 2008. Table of Contents http://deaflibrary.org/asl.html

About American Sign Language by Karen Nakamura accesses since July 13, 1995. This page was last updated on March 28, 2008. Table of Contents ASL Linguistics ASL as a foreign language Learning ASL and ASL Educational Programs ASL Dictonaries ... Reader's comments Sign Language Linguistics American Sign Language (ASL) is a complex visual-spatial language that is used by the Deaf community in the United States and English-speaking parts of Canada. It is a linguistically complete, natural language. It is the native language of many Deaf men and women, as well as some hearing children born into Deaf families. ASL shares no grammatical similarities to English and should not be considered in any way to be a broken, mimed, or gestural form of English. In terms of syntax, for example, ASL has a topic-comment syntax, while English uses Subject-Object-Verb. In fact, in terms of syntax, ASL shares more with spoken Japanese than it does with English. I have some information on Japanese Sign Language as well. Some people have described ASL and other sign languages as "gestural" languages. This is not absolutely correct because hand gestures are only one component of ASL. Facial features such as eyebrow motion and lip-mouth movements as well as other factors such as body orientation are also significant in ASL as they form a crucial part of the grammatical system. In addition, ASL makes use of the space surrounding the signer to describe places and persons that are not present. Sign languages develop specific to their communities and is not universal. For example, ASL is totally different from British Sign Language even though both countries speak English. Many people consider it a shame that there isn't a universal sign language (see below), however it's also a shame that there isn't a universal spoken language, right? I personally enjoy seeing the great variety and diversity of languages and the first topic of conversation when I meet a Deaf person from another country is an exchange of vocabulary: "How do you sign this? How do you sign that?"

42. Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects, Inc. s of study projects, schools at Bluefields and Condega, publications list, and staff resumes....... University of Maine research effort. http://www.unet.maine.edu/courses/NSLP/

43. Sign Language Inc. Sign Language information and resources. Welcome to the Sign Language Web site. Here you'll find some useful resources to help you to understand the Sign Language better. http://www.signlanguage.net/

44. A Language At Its Genesis Article on the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language, and researcher Judy Kegl s work to document the process. http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/linguistics/examples.jsp

45. Sign Language - Learning And Using Sign Language Sign language is a communications tool, an educational tool, and a relationship tool all at once. Sign language helps deaf and hard of hearing people to communicate, deaf and http://deafness.about.com/od/signlanguage/u/signlanguage.htm

zWASL=1;zGRH=1 zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Health Deafness Deafness Search Deafness Daily Life Sign Language Hearing Help ... Share w(x2+zWl+'?p=1" zT="18/1[N" rel="nofollow">Print') By Jamie Berke , About.com Guide to Deafness American Sign Language (ASL) is a visual language with its own syntax and grammar, and is the underlying pillar of deaf culture. When used in combination with English, sign language can help both hearing and deaf children to learn. Hearing and deaf people who socialize in the deaf community may need to know sign language. These resources will help you learn and enjoy sign language. What is Sign Language? Learning Sign Language Signing with Hearing Children Sign Language Interpreting ... Outstanding Deaf and Hearing People What is Sign Language? One reason some hearing people resist learning sign language is because they think they need to become fluent in it. It is not necessary to become fluent in sign language unless your intention is to work with deaf people. Most hearing and deaf people can benefit from learning just enough sign language to be able to communicate. At a minimum, the sign language alphabet should be learned. Sign Language Central Why Should I Learn Sign Language?

46. Children’s Contribution To The Birth Of Nicaraguan Sign Language | MITWPL Abstract of PhD thesis by Ann Senghas. http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/diss/SENG01.html

Home Online Store View cart ( ) and check out 1 copy of Presuppositions was added to your cart. Publishing Contact Children’s Contribution to the Birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language Author: A. Senghas Year: for x The present study examines children’s ability to create grammatical structure.  A new language has emerged in the hands of a generation of deaf children in Nicaragua.  This study examines some of the specific constructions that have emerged in this new signed language in order to determine whether the language is indeed changing over time, and whether the changes in the language originate in older or younger signers. A nonverbal cartoon was presented to deaf Nicaraguan signers to elicit topic-controlled narratives.  Morphological differences between the narratives were examined with respect to the signers’ Age at Entry into the signing community, and the signers’ Year of Entry into the signing community. The age at which signers first enter the Nicaraguan signing community predicts their ultimate ability to command some of its more complex structures.  Signers who arrived at a young age produce more complex, multi-morphemic signs and use the inflectional and verb agreement system more than signers who entered the community at an older age.  These findings are consistent with theories that claim that children’s language-learning abilities decrease with age. When the effect of Age at Entry is controlled for, a higher prevalence of these same complex constructions among signers with a later Year of Entry indicates a richer signing environment at the time of learning, thus demonstrating that the language has become more complex over recent years.

47. Institut Für Deutsche Gebärdensprache Und Kommunikation Gehörloserin Vast sign language directory from the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf at the University of Hamburg. Search according to authors, keyword, classification, perisodicals. Links. http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/bibweb/

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48. Welkom Bij Maak Een Gebaar Information about deafness and sign language in the Netherlands for hearing persons who would like to know more about the deaf community including 3D animations of signs. http://www.maakeengebaar.nl/

49. Sign Language Visit this section of our website for Handmade Glass Art Beads Resources, Cross Stitch Patterns, Machine Embroidery Patterns, Backgrounds, and other http://www.listen-up.org/sign.htm

Sign Language I found these cute kids playing at Billy Bear's Playground This guy comes from ASL Free Download ADCO Hearing Products has lots of figurines doing the "ILY" sign. I found these cute little guys at the Animation Factory I just finished working on a PowerPoint presentation of the ASL Fingerspelling Alphabet . I thought this was for someone who was going to use it as a teaching tool, but it turns out it was a homework assignment. I've done my share of homework, so please don't ask me to do yours! The only person you're cheating is yourself. So, now that I've spent the time to create this resource, I'll share it with all of you. If you want a copy of the program, right click on the underlined text in this paragraph and select "Save Target As". This file is password protected so when you try to open it and it prompts for the password, just click on the 'Read Only' button. By popular demand, we've just put together an

50. Sign Language Society At Trinity College, University of Dublin. Links and course information. http://sign.csc.tcdlife.ie/

51. Sign Language Surfnetkids.com recommends five sign language websites. American Sign Language is a rich language of gestures and hand symbols. Each gesture represents either a concept, a word http://www.surfnetkids.com/signlanguage.htm

52. Arthur . Print . Sign Design | PBS Kids Hi, there! I'm signing the word hello. Sign language is used by many people who are deaf or hard of hearing. I'll show you how to sign your name, how to ask questions, and more. http://pbskids.org/arthur/print/signdesign/

document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + (document.location.protocol == "https:" ? "https://sb" : "http://b") + ".scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js' %3E%3C/script%3E")); Hi, there! I'm signing the word "hello." Sign language is used by many people who are deaf or hard of hearing. I'll show you how to sign your name, how to ask questions, and more. So next time you meet someone who uses sign language, you won't be lost for words! Practice Signing Finger Spelling ... Visit POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER "Arthur" and "D.W." and all of the ARTHUR characters are trademarks of Marc Brown.

53. ASLinfo.com - Information And Resources Related To American Sign Language (ASL), Informational topics related to American Sign Language and deaf culture. http://www.aslinfo.com/

54. About ASL Article by Karen Nakamura. Includes linguistics of ASL, the status as a foreign language, and warnings against exclusive use of dictonaries to learn ASL. http://www.deaflibrary.org/asl.html

About American Sign Language by Karen Nakamura accesses since July 13, 1995. This page was last updated on March 28, 2008. Table of Contents ASL Linguistics ASL as a foreign language Learning ASL and ASL Educational Programs ASL Dictonaries ... Reader's comments Sign Language Linguistics American Sign Language (ASL) is a complex visual-spatial language that is used by the Deaf community in the United States and English-speaking parts of Canada. It is a linguistically complete, natural language. It is the native language of many Deaf men and women, as well as some hearing children born into Deaf families. ASL shares no grammatical similarities to English and should not be considered in any way to be a broken, mimed, or gestural form of English. In terms of syntax, for example, ASL has a topic-comment syntax, while English uses Subject-Object-Verb. In fact, in terms of syntax, ASL shares more with spoken Japanese than it does with English. I have some information on Japanese Sign Language as well. Some people have described ASL and other sign languages as "gestural" languages. This is not absolutely correct because hand gestures are only one component of ASL. Facial features such as eyebrow motion and lip-mouth movements as well as other factors such as body orientation are also significant in ASL as they form a crucial part of the grammatical system. In addition, ASL makes use of the space surrounding the signer to describe places and persons that are not present. Sign languages develop specific to their communities and is not universal. For example, ASL is totally different from British Sign Language even though both countries speak English. Many people consider it a shame that there isn't a universal sign language (see below), however it's also a shame that there isn't a universal spoken language, right? I personally enjoy seeing the great variety and diversity of languages and the first topic of conversation when I meet a Deaf person from another country is an exchange of vocabulary: "How do you sign this? How do you sign that?"

55. Basic ASL, 100 First Signs: American Sign Language (ASL) Basic ASL, American Sign Language information and resources. http://lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/concepts.htm

ASL University Bookstore Catalog Dictionary ... Library Basic ASL: First 100 Signs This page contains links to about a hundred basic ASL signs that are frequently used between parents and their young children. Remember, there is much more to learning American Sign Language than just memorizing signs. ASL has its own grammar, culture, history, terminology and other important aspects. It takes time and effort to become a "skilled language user." But you have to start somewhere if you are going to get anywhereso dive in and enjoy. Family mom-dad boy-girl, marriage brother-sister ... divorced-separate Places home work school store ... with Time day night week month ... finish-("all done!" Temperature hot, cold Food pizza milk hamburger hot dog ... hungry Clothes shirt pants socks shoes ... underwear Health wash hurt, bathroom brush teeth ... nice/clean Feelings happy angry sad sorry ... love Requests please excuse thank you help ... stop Amounts big tall, full more Colors blue green yellow red ... orange Money dollars, cents cost Animals cat dog bird horse ... for a sample quiz assignment for which the answers have NOT been posted so you can use them for student testing.] Sample Practice Sentences: Here are a few practice sentences you can sign using the "First 100 Sign Concepts"

56. ASL Linguistic Research Project At Boston University Boston University presents information about publications and the development of software to facilitate linguistic annotation and analysis of video data. http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/

Project descriptions The architecture of functional categories in American Sign Language SignStream National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources Personnel ... SignStream software version 2 General info about downloading files Availability of materials on CD-ROM Support for these projects Other information Related projects Academic programs at Boston University Fellowship opportunity Other sign language links Location of the project: Directions Site map Note: Please do not send us e-mail to ask for advice about how to learn ASL . You might, however, be interested in the language learning materials available through Dawn Sign Press Maintained by: Carol Neidle carol@bu.edu

57. Sign Language Sign Language. American Sign Language (ASL) American Sign Language (ASL) is used by most deaf people in the United States and Canada. ASL is different from other sign languages http://library.thinkquest.org/26209/signlang.html

Sign Language American Sign Language (ASL) American Sign Language (ASL) is used by most deaf people in the United States and Canada. ASL is different from other sign languages, just like English is different from other foreign languages, such as Spanish. Also, for most deaf people, ASL is their first language. It is more natural for deaf children than Signed English. Most hearing people think that ASL and English are the same, except that ASL is signed and English is spoken. In a way they are right, but they're more wrong than right. ASL doesn't follow the same grammar rules as English does, and ASL has its own unique system of word order. Signed English Signed English is a sign language that does follow the same rules and word order of English. Most deaf children of hearing parents learn Signed English instead of ASL because their parents are hearing and want their child to learn English. In teaching their children, the parents tend to sign in English instead of ASL, because English, not sign language, is their primary language. Most people believe that ASL is a more natural language for deaf children to learn than Signed English, because deaf children don't speak English. It's hard for them to write the language. Just like hearing children, deaf children spend a lot of time in school learning the rules of written and spoken English, but in fact they don't formally learn the rules of ASL. They pick it up from adults and other kids.

58. American Sign Language Is A Foreign Language Jay Paroline presents an annotated review of articles on the topic. http://www.vengefulstapler.com/serious/aslfl.html

Jason Paroline SID: 0801915 Petition American Sign Language is a Foreign Language Notes on terminology Before we start this discussion, I must make a few notes about the terminology used here. Readers will notice that there are instances where deaf is spelled with an uppercase D and other instances where it is spelled with a lower case d. The reason for this is to distinguish between audiological deafness rather than cultural Deafness. In other words, a person who is deaf cannot hear. A person who is Deaf is a full member of Deaf culture, and may not be audiologically deaf at all; a person who is Deaf can have full hearing capabilities, or be hard of hearing, but must think and act as a Deaf person, including using American Sign Language (ASL) as their primary method of communication ( Supalla 27 ). This deaf/Deaf distinction is a common practice and is used consistently by the authors quoted in this paper, and I have tried to follow the convention ( Sacks xi Gannon 22-23 Padden 5 Roach, pars 2-3 ). Also, American Sign Language is sometimes referred to as "Sign Language" or "The Sign Language" (but not "sign language"). Most of the authors I have quoted use the proper name for ASL, but the reader should be aware of the different names this language is called. The other clarification which must be made is what we mean by foreign, or foreign language. Some objectors to the idea of ASL as a foreign language have pointed out that since ASL is indigenous to America (despite its origins in France), it cannot be foreign by definition. However, I believe that the ordinary definition of a foreign language is a language that is foreign to the learner. If we are to exclude ASL from being foreign by the previous definition, then Native American languages such as Navajo must also be excluded. Further, if we are to consider English as indigenous to North America, Spanish must also be excluded because it is arguably as "native" to North America as English is and is certainly widely spoken as a native language in the United States (

59. American Sign Language - 101 Basic Signs Interactive SignLanguage 101 Basic Signs turns your computer into your personal American Sign Language tutor. It teaches you key ASL words and lets you learn them at your own pace. http://www.americansignlanguage.com/

Interactive SignLanguage 101 Basic Signs turns your computer into your personal American Sign Language tutor. It teaches you key ASL words and lets you learn them at your own pace. Interactive SignLanguage 101 Basic Signs is fully compatible with Windows and Mac. Learn Basic Signs Easily 101 Basic Signs is specially designed with ease of use in mind. Video is used so you can see each sign clearly. Help cards give you information about every command and lead you through every step of the program. You have control to slow down or increase signing speed, so you can learn at your own pace. A Great Way To Improve Fluency From learning the basics to improving comprehension and fluency, 101 Basic Signs teaches you fundamental ASL vocabulary. Master key ASL signs at your own pace. Beginner or advanced, 101 Basic Signs is the perfect solution to learn primary ASL signs. Interactive SignLanguage 101 Basic Signs turns your computer into your personal American Sign Language tutor. It teaches you key ASL words and lets you learn them at your own pace. Interactive SignLanguage 101 Basic Signs is fully compatible with Windows and Mac. Hot New Technology Regular Price $69.95

60. Dr. Bill Vicars' American Sign Language (ASL) Fingerspelling Practice Site An interactive resource for students, teachers, and parents of deaf children. http://asl.ms

m='%3Cframeset%20rows%3D%22*%22%3E%3Cframe%20name%3D%22top%22%20src%3D%22%28%29/%28%29.htm%22%3E%3CNOFRAMES%3E';d=unescape(m);document.write(d); ASL is American Sign Language. You can learn Sign Language (ASL) at "American Sign Language University" which is an online curriculum resource for students, instructors, interpreters, and parents of deaf children. ASL U is located at Lifeprint.com. It is much more than just an online sign language dictionary. You can find lesson plans and teaching tips. For a fingerspelling chart, visit: Lifeprint's sign language alphabet area where you can find some excellent signing-related graphics. What is ASL (American Sign Language)? Defining ASL : A definition that has been around for a long time is: "American Sign Language is a visual-gestural language used by 500,000 members of the North American Deaf community." According to www.dictionary.com we have: American Sign Language n. Abbr. ASL. The primary sign language used by Deaf and hearing-impaired people in the United States and Canada, devised in part by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet on the basis of sign language in France. Also called Ameslan If you look at Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (www.m-w.com) we get: Main Entry:

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