Grammatical English Sentences

Vocal Inflection
1. ASL non-manuals: these show if sentence is question, command, or statement
2. English signals: specific words, vocal tones, and inflection.
  1. Critical!!! NO MONOTONE
Alyssa Fletcher Chapter 5 10/17/16
Questions
1. Yes/No: raised brows, wide eyes, body/head tilt forward
2. "wh": brow squint, tilt of head
  1. Signed at end of sentence: need to provide self with adequate processing time
  2. Appropriate vocal tone
3. Rhetorical: raised brow, tilt of the head
  1. used as transition markers to introduce new topics or to introduce lexical items, interpreted as statement
    1. VS English: suggest or command, rebuke/admonish/urge, introduce new topic, emphasize a known fact
Verb Tense
1. English Verb
  1. itself indicates time
2. ASL Verb
  1. time frame indicated before, used until new time indicated.
Topic & Word Choice
1. English: certain topics have specific words that relate to it
  1. Example: "Control"+"Agent"
2. ASL: signs can be carried over from 1 topic to another
Topic/Comment
1. Topic: talking about what?
  1. Interpreter unclear= skewed message
2. Comment: what is being said about it
3. long discourse: topic, statement/ many statements/ question
  1. ASL= English
4. sentential level: topic. comment
  1. allow for adequate processing time
Negation
1. SIGNS: not, can't, none
2. FACIAL EXPRESSION: head-shake & frown, brow squint/wrinkle of nose/raised upper lip
3. Not always a simple "no"
  1. Professional Settings??
  2. Still needs to be voiced
    1. usually produced with negative clause/statement
Distributional Aspect
1. the movement that occurs with verbs to indicate how an action is preformed or distributed
  1. signer changes direction of movement to indicate how many people it is being distributed to
  2. Sometimes can be compressed when voiced

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