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ASL Research
Criticism
The Deaf community thought Stokoe invented "new" terms for them and they did not appreciate that for he was a hearing man.
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People believed that sign was just an extension of English and did not see the reason in a hearing mans research and believed that it was arrogant.
Despite all of the hate, Stokoe did not give up and continued to give lectures and write books.
During the 1970s, peoples attitude began to change, and they started to recognize Deaf Culture.
With all of Stokoe's work, Deaf Culture had a firm base on which investigations on ASL were made.
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Stokoe
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Was fascinated by the sing language used by his students, and believed that sign contained highly developed linguistics.
With a grant, he developed the Linguistics Research Laboratory in 1957.
The grant was mentioned in the Washington Star (an old newspaper), and it came with two written letters by people who did not approve of the research
Partnered with two Deaf colleagues in the English department, Carl Cronenberg and Dorothy Casterline
The three colleagues filmed deaf people signing, and analyzed the different sign patterns for several years.
Facts
The Gallaudet and Deaf community did not support Stokoe and his research at first, stating that it was a waste of time and money
An ASL dictionary was made by Stokoe, Casterline, and Cronenberg in 1965
The internal structure of sign included handshape, location, and movements.
Handshape=tab (tabula), Location=dez (designator), Movement=sig (signation)
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Early Findings
In 1960, Stokoe published his findings in a book.
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In the ASL dictionary, the signs were labeled with their English translation and their internal structure.
The three colleagues founded that there were 19 handshapes, 12 locations, and 24 movements in sign language.
The Salk Institute
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After two years of research, Bellugi founded that sign had its own grammatical properties.
The couple adopted the three parameters by Stokoe, and theorized that there were additional features.
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Bellugi and Kilma's 1979 The Signs of Language was said to be the most important work of their research.
The Start
In the early 1960s, studying structural linguistics became common in American colleges/universities
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Originally, linguistics in spoken language was described according to sound structures and design, the organization of morphemes and vocabulary, and sentence structure.
European linguists theorized that coding the structures, language could be easily compared.