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The manual alphabet used in American Sign Language. Letters are shown in a variety of orientations, not as they would be seen by the viewer. Travis Dougherty explains and demonstrates the ASL alphabet. Voice-over interpretation by Gilbert G. Lensbower.
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Like SignFont and Stokoe notation, ASL-phabet is a phonemic script, but it has been simplified to the point where there is some ambiguity, that is, one symbol can represent more than one phonemic element (handshape, location or movement). For example, whereas SignFont has 25 letters encoding types of movement, and Stokoe notation has 24, ASL ...
Mandatory sign: Must do: Blue: Circle: Use hearing protection Warning sign: Warn of hazard: Yellow: Equilateral triangle with rounded corners: Explosive materials Safe Condition sign: Identifying of safety equipment & exits: Green: Square or rectangular: Emergency Assembly Point Fire Safety sign: Identifying of firefighting equipment: Red ...
[3] [2] A third category, nontraditional name signs, combine elements of the arbitrary and descriptive. [2] An ANS sign is usually just a unique sign without other meaning, but there may be family patterns, like all the children in a family having names signed at the chin. [3] Name signs may change over the course of a user's life. [2]
The large number of initialized signs in ASL and French Sign Language is partly a legacy of Abbé de l'Épée's system of Methodical Sign (les signes méthodiques), in which the handshapes of most signs were changed to correspond to the initial letter of their translation in the local oral language, and (in the case of ASL) partly a more recent ...
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language [5] that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features . [ 6 ]