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2. ASL Linguistics
Linguistics, 5th Edition

3. Variation and Historical Change

4. Title of this course?

5. ASL Structure and Usage

6. Structure: phonology, morphology, syntax …

7. Language Structure +

8. Language Usage Skills =

9. Communicative Competence

10. What do we call the study of the interrelationship of language and social structure?

11. Socio-linguistics
[Page 161, 4th Ed.; Page 171, 5th Ed.]

12. Communicative competence = what?

13. …able to use language for both…

14. communicative and social functions.

15. Communication = describing things

16. Social functions = interacting with others

17. Knowledge of how to use…

18. … the forms of a language, the phonology, morphology, and syntax

19. Knowledge of how to use the language appropriately:

20. How to enter or leave a conversation

21. How to ask for an apology

22. Match language appropriate to a situation.

23. -

24. What do we call “different ways of saying the same thing?”

25. Language Variation

26. Language variance from location to location =

27. Regional Variation

28. Vocabulary variations:

29. Lexical variation

30. English: Ex: “sofa” vs “couch”

31. soda soft-drink pop Coke

32. Bag vs sack

33. Supper vs Dinner

34. ASL Vocabulary variation
[Page 163, 4th Ed.; Page 172, 5th Ed.]

35. PICNIC

36. BIRTHDAY

37. HALLOWEEN

38. SOON

39. Pronunciation differences =

40. Accents

41. Accents = phonological variation

42. ASL Examples of pronunciation differences:

43. MOVIE (base hand handshape?)

44. ABOUT (Base hand handshape?)

45. PEOPLE (movement path)

46. SIGN-(general) (movement path)

47. Other kinds of variation:

48. Social Variation

49. Ethnic

50. Black signing

51. Gender Variations

52. Age Variations

53. Tactile signing

54. Reasons for variation?

55. Historical Change
[Page 164, 4th Ed.; Page 174, 5th Ed.]

56. Close ties to FSL

57. Two hands to one

58. CAT

59. COW

60. HORSE

61. DEVIL

62. Become more simple:

63. HELP and GUIDE formerly on the elbow

64. Assimilation:

65. TOMATO

66. LAST

67. BELIEVE

68. HUSBAND

69. Location change:

70. WRONG (mouth to chin)

71. FEEL (left side to middle)

72. One-handed change to two handed:

73. DIE

74. JOURNEY

75. New terms:

76. Telephone

77. Television

78. Computer technology

79. “changing channels on the TV”

80. Old form of HOME

81. Citation forms of THINK KNOW SUPPOSE

82. Citation form of DEAF (ear to chin)

83. Other forms chin to ear

84. Contact cheek

85. Morphosyntactic variation

86. Drops the subject pronoun with verbs that usually require a subject

87. Verb examples:

88. FEEL

89. KNOW

90. LIKE

91. Change in progress:

92. RABBIT

93. COMPUTER

94. AFRICA

95. JAPAN

96. Regional variation at the phonological level is referred to as what?
[Page 161, 4th Ed.; Page172, 5th Ed.]

97. * Accents

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