Module 1

Vocabulary

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Fingerspelling

Grammar 

Classifiers:

CL:1 - The classifier of this index finger handshape (CL1) may represent a thin and/or long object or a person, such as a person, a twig, a pole, a pen, a stick, etc. 

CL:2 - two persons standing or walking side by side (CL:2 up), one person standing (CL:2 down), a person lying down, eye gaze ... 

CL: B- (thumb not inside like the handshape B but closed together with fingers, thumb sometimes open, sometimes inside) - book, table, desk, surface, wall, door, window, picture, car (in some contexts), bookcase shelf, paper, foot ...

Again, the palm orientation is also considered. E.g. The "B" classifier handshape with its palm orientation facing down is used to represent such objects as paper, a table, a bed, etc. With the upright handshape, it can be referred to as a picture, a wall, etc.

CL:S - head 

Nonmanual Markers:

Non-Manual Marking (NMM; also, non-manuals) in American Sign Language (ASL) is comprised of non-affective facial expressions, head positions, and body positions that provide crucial grammatical context to the manual signs. Without NMM, the signs themselves can only rarely create a comprehensible construction in ASL. 

Check out this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=NbbNwVwdfGg&list=PLOUjz88VExDNM91TPRXFfdu1rSX5BKT8u

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