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ASL as a langauge - Coggle Diagram

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- - - - australopithecines (first human beings) communicate with their hands
        
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- - - - describe height, width, interiro, exterior
        
        describe people/obejects in action
        
        words and ideas are expressed and valued in sign langauge
- - - - one handed signs below the neck tend to become two handed
        
        two handed signs contact with face tend one handed
        
        sign prod. ties to become fluid by dropping parts of sign
- - - - deaf children forced to remember definitions of nouns, verbs, adverbs, etc with use of 'Fitzgerald key', 'Barry five-slate'
        
        now students learn sign name, then finger spell, before learning how to write or pronounce names
        
        students still lack bilingual education
- - - - he published a book and a dictionary with English translations and signs internal structure, ex. handshape, location, movement
        
        1950-1960s negative social climate probably had to do w negative feelings towards stokeo research
        
        people were stilling thinking ASL as extension of English, which it was not it was its own complex lanuage
        
        1970s attitudes changed, realized deaf culture is real, & centered around ASL, stokeo research was the basis for other research
        
        father of ASL linguistics
        
        new findings: hand shape, location, movement, orientation
        
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