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Recognition of ASL as a Language - Coggle Diagram
Recognition of ASL as a Language
Stokoe
hired to chair the Gallaudet University English department and established the Linguistics Research Laboratory
Until Stokoe’s work, people were not aware of the fact that ASL had its own grammar, structure, and vocabulary.
considered the father of American sign Language Linguistic
disagree with the term language meaning tongue and insisted that language is a cognitive system linked to some kind of physical system and that it’s not something done by the mouth. It is something done by the brain, and the mouth happens to be one way it can come out
used the quotation from Democritus, "Everything existing in the universe is the the fruit of chance and necessity.." to trace the development of language
Stokoe's research
proved sign language was a complete and complex language distinct from English and claimed that sign language was more than gestures
Stokoe and his team identified nineteen handshapes, twelve locations, and twenty-four movements.
signs were not only listed by their translations in English, but with their internal structure, the combination of handshapes, locations, and movements
Stokoe’s work provided a firm base on which later investigations of ASL
started a ripple effect giving birth to additional theories and ideas for new researchers and linguists throughout the world
Early Findings
australopithecines communicated with each other with hands before speech was used
gestural communication was more effective among pre-human ancestors
sign language evolved like how some signs that used to require one hand now requires two hands, while others are now produced with one hand
sixty percent of the signs used in America during the early 1800s originated with french signs while it’s safe to assume that the other forty percent came from Martha’s Vineyard
ASL studies
researchers discovered the signs had patterns and characteristics such as phonology, morphology, syntax, etc
ASL has five parameters: handshapes, locations, movements, palm orientation, and facial behaviors
until the 1970s that people, both hearing and deaf, realized that there’s a deaf culture
ASL resource books were published and accompanied by a set of three student textbooks. In today’s society, we referred to those books as green books
In ASL assimilation, two signs begin to look more like each other in the process and become one sign
Facial expressions and head behavior make sentences