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Birth of ASL Research - Coggle Diagram
Birth of ASL Research
William Stokoe
Chair of English Department-Gallaudet University
Established Linguistics Laboratory-1957
Teamed with Carl Cronenberg & Dorothy Casterline
Analyzed signs for patterns over several years
Published Sign Language Structure-1957
Showed sign language was a complete and complex language distinct from English
Published A Dictionary of ASL-1965
Signs listed by translation to English and internal structure
Handshapes
Identified 19 handshapes
Location
Identified 12 locations
Movement
Identified 24 movements
The Salk Institue
Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima
Convinced ASL had grammatical properties
Added additional features to Stokoe's 3 parameters
Published Signs of Language-1979
Many present day categorizations of ASL came from Salk Institute