Suggested Citation. Stephens, Carolyn J. (2012) 'Phonological Parameters of Indigenous and ASL Country Name-Signs,' Journal of Interpretation: Vol. Personal name signs are a valued aspect of ASL/Deaf culture. Each member of the ASL/Deaf community, has her/his unqiue name sign, even if two or more.

'A language is a system of relatively arbitrary symbols and grammatical signals that change across time and that members of a community share and use for several purposes: to interact with each other, to communicate their ideas, emotions, and intentions, and to transmit their culture from generation to generation.' *All languages have words of signs that stand for or represent something else. These words or signs are symbols.

For example, the English word 'cat' is a symbol for a particular kind of furry, four-legged animal. In the same way, the ASL sign is a symbol for that animal. Plogue Bidule Keygen Mac Adobe. Two systems that have been developed to describe the signs are the Stokoe System and the Liddell and Johnson System. Stokoe devised the first system for describing the handshapes, locations, and movements of signs. Location: He called it the tabula or tab.

Handshape: He called it the designator or dez. Movement: He called it the signation or sig. Chereme: He used this term to refer to the tab, dez, & sig. It is from a Greek word, cheir, that means hand. According to him, cheremes were meaningless elements that combine to form signs.

ENGLISH = phonemes ASL = cheremes. The Movement-Hold Model: Signs have hold segments and movement segments that are made sequentially. Information about the handshape, location, orientation, and nonmanual signals is provided.

Liddell and R. Johnson argued convincingly against Stokoe's assumption that there was no sequential contrast in ASL. They went even further and made sequential contrast the basis of ASL phonology; that is, instead of emphasizing the simultaneous occurrence of phonemes in ASL, they emphasized sequences of phonemes.' Some Problems with the Stokoe System. Example 1: DIE 'The two-handed sign has two orientations in sequence (R: palm up >down; L: down >up), and that is shown in the movement. However, signs like one-handed DIE and one-handed CHILDREN, which each have a sequence of orientations and seem to differ only in orientation, are not distinguished as such in the Stokoe system' Example 2: DEAF 'The sign has two locations in sequence (chin >cheek), and that is shown in the movement. This sign also can be made from cheek >chin.

The Stokoe system does not show this.' 'Liddell and Johnson proposed that a more accurate analysis of signs is one in which they are described as a series of postures and transitions.