California cities' Vocabulary
What are the NMS mouth morphemes?Â
The Non Manual Signals (NMS) mouth morphemes are part of ASL grammatical that are conveying distance and size. When it indicates the size of something, use the following NMS mouth morphemes along with the sign. The ASL grammar, "oo" is used to indicated something is relatively small or smaller than expected, "mm" is used to indicate something is average, ordinary, and/or comfortable size, and "cha" is used to indicate something is relatively larger than average size or larger than expected.
Please view and understand the NMS mouth morphemes and Christy demonstrates them in the video(above).
Please watch carefully how the signer demonstrates the spatial agreement to represent the verb to whom and examples of agreement verbs sentences.
Please watch carefully how the signer demonstrates the contrastive structure to compare and contrast two or more things.
Please watch carefully how the signer demonstrates numbers 30, 40, 50, and 60, keep in mind the following: 30, 40, and 50 start with 3, 4, or 5 facing out. Then the extended fingers and thumb close repeatedly. With 60, the thumb and pinky finger remain in contact while extended fingers close repeatedly. Also demonstrate the numbers 33, 44, 55, and 66 as you sign the palm faces down and the numbers are made with a "stamping" movement going sideway towards your dominant side. Finally demonstrate the numbers 31 - 39, 41-49, 51-59, and 61 - 65 these numbers are all slightly forward. Sign the first digit of the number with the palm facing out. the Hand then moves slightly forward while signing the second digit. This is the same movement as you learned for numbers 23 - 29. For 31, 41, 51, and 61, when signing the "1" make sure the other fingers of the hand are closed in a fist, and not in a circle as in the letter "D"
A contrastive structure is used by nodding her head slightly and shifting her body from one side to the other by doing the following:
establish one topic on your non-dominant side
nod and shift your body slightly towards that side
orient the signs about the topic toward the side
Then do the same for the other topic (usually the "opposite")
Please watch carefully how the signer demonstrates the RIDE handshapes and discusses examples of RIDE sentence demonstration.
This Comprehension exercise gives you more practice taking the signer's perspective. The signer gives you instructions for what to do with the squares. The signer identifies the squares and tells you what to put in them.
The sign for YEAR is made by forming both hands into the letter "S." If you are right-handed, rotate your right hand completely around the left. The right hand should come to rest on top of the left.
Please observe two ways to sign # + YEAR
Please watch carefully how the signer demonstrates the vocabulary and English sentences in ASL. Also, the signer demonstrates how to use rhetorical questions in ASLÂ demonstration.
This Comprehension exercise gives you more practice to comprehend short autobiography narratives. The signer gives you the short story then you are encouraged to summarize the information of name, residence, marital status, cities, near what, etc on your way and then compare the answer information. You are doing the self-assessment to see if you are able to understand the basic short story.