LIGN 146 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Handshape, Vivarium Inc., Sociolinguistics
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Examples of new signs being added to asl: #fax, #email, eat^sleep, boy^same. What are the parts of asl signs: five parameters handshape, movement, location, palm orientation, non- manual signals, segments movements and holds, dead = hmh. Examples of asl changing over time: think, idea, know, believe, etc, feel, love, cat, cow, horse, deer. Style/register: writing a job application, email to a close friend, texting, signing in a formal presentation, signing at home with a friend, signing on social media. Language users : monitor their use (& self-correct, learn by interacting with other users, think about and discuss language. Facial/body grammar: non-manual signals can be grammatical, contrastive, and affective, late vs not-yet, finally & pah, are you home? , you"re home. , go home! . Do handshapes have meaning of their own: lousy, awkward, preach, three-months. Kinds of variation: phonological/morphological, lexical, syntactic, discourse level and more. Processes of phonological variation in spoken languages (wolfram.
