Asl To English Translation

Front 1

What is the Theory of Sign Production?

Back 1

hold-movement-hold

Front 2

Who is responsible for the Theory of Sign Production?

Back 2

Scott Liddell and Robert Johnson

Front 3

Who is responsible for finding the 5th parameter of sign production?

Back 3

Liddell and Johnson

Front 4

What is the 5th Parameter?

Back 4

nonmanual markers

Front 5

Who researched noun/verb pairs and when?

Back 5

Ted Supalla and Elissa Newport (1978)

Front 6

List 4 noun/verb pairs:

Back 6

1. fly/airplane
2. go by boat/boat
3. go by skiis/skiis
4. call/name
5. sell/store
6. open book/book
7. sit/chair
8. put gas in/gas
9. open door/door
10. comb hair/comb

Front 7

Name 5 lexical loan signs

Back 7

1. or
2. of
3. oh
4. ha
5. so
6. ok
7. no
8. do
9. no good
10. fix
11. off
12. knockout
13. job
14. bank
15. early

Front 8

List at least 3 ways numeral incorporation can be used:

Back 8

1. age
2. months
3. years
4. weeks
5. first place, second place, etc
6. hours
7. minutes
8. years future/past
9. height

Front 9

what are the 5 examples of uses of location?

Back 9

1. locative verbs
2. indexing
3. determiners
4. object/verb agreement
5. classifier predicates

Front 10

List 3 locative verbs:

Back 10

1. bleed
2. tear
3. hurt
4. sew
5. operate (as in surgery)
6. break
7. kiss
8. bite

Front 11

Which example of location uses either index finger or thumb to show location of a person or place?

Back 11

indexing

Front 12

Which example of location uses only the index finger to show location of an object or thing?

Back 12

determiner

Front 13

List at least 3 directional verbs:

Back 13

1. show
2. give
3. ask
4. tell
5. steal
6. loan
7. take from
8. help
9. inform
10. summons

Front 14

List the 3 types of movement roots:

Back 14

1. Stative description
2. Process
3. Contact

Front 15

Define stative description:

Back 15

hand moves to describe the object; the object itself does not move; (pile of coins, mound of rice, flat land)

Front 16

Describe process movement root:

Back 16

your hand moves and the object/person is actually moving; (person walking, car driving past tree)

Front 17

Describe contact movement root:

Back 17

sign moved downward; object is not moving, but the sign moves downward; (park the car)

Front 18

List the 7 types of classifier handshapes (morphemes) and an example of each:

Back 18

1. whole entity morpheme (airplane, car, person, animal)
2. surface morpheme (expense of flat land)
3. Instrumental morpheme (scissors, holding a cup)
4. depth and width morpheme (tree trunks, pipes, thin layers of ice or snow)
5. extent morpheme (liquid in a glass, stack of papers)
6. perimeter-shape morpheme (rectangle, round table)
7. on-surface morpheme (audience, crowd of people)

Front 19

What is a whole entity morpheme?

Back 19

a handshape that refers to an object as a whole (person, animal, airplane, car)

Front 20

what is a surface morpheme?

Back 20

represents thin surfaces or wires; narrow or wide surfaces; ('b' handshape to show expanse of land; 'i' handshape to show wires)

Front 21

What are instrumental morphemes?

Back 21

representing hands holding different objects (scissors, cup, camera)

Front 22

waht are depth and width morphemes?

Back 22

represent depth and width of different things (tree trunks, pipes, thin layers of ice or snow, stripes of various widths)

Front 23

What are extent morphemes?

Back 23

handshapes that represent amounts of volumes (liquid in a glass, stack of papers, tire deflating)

Front 24

What are perimeter-shape morphemes?

Back 24

handshapes that represent the external shape of an object (rectangle, a round table, notecard, coin, button)

Front 25

What are on-surface morphemes?

Back 25

handshapes that represent large groups or crowds of people, animals, or objects (audience, herd of cattle,)

Front 26

What is a morpheme?

Back 26

the smallest identifiable unit that has meaning

Front 27

Who is the sociolingusit who discussed "mouthing" and when?

Back 27

Davis (1989)

Front 28

What is another name for "contact signing"?

Back 28

Pidgin Sign English

Front 29

List at least 3 features of contact signing:

Back 29

1. English word order
2. use of prepositions
3. English Expressions
4. Mouthing of English words
5. ASL non-manual signals
6. Body and eye gaze shifting
7. ASL use of space

Front 30

What is double immersion?

Back 30

Immersed in both the black and deaf cultures