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Course Credit: Georgetown University
Course Curriculum
Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change | 00:07:00 | ||
1.1.1 The legacy of American Sign Language | 00:13:00 | ||
1.1.2 Structural requirements | 00:02:00 | ||
1.1.3 Uniqueness of human speech challenged | 00:02:00 | ||
1.1.4 Other misconceptions about ASL | 00:03:00 | ||
1.2.1 Language evolution for best fit | 00:11:00 | ||
1.2.2 Accommodating touch | 00:05:00 | ||
1.2.3 Optimal layering of linguistic units | 00:06:00 | ||
1.3.1 The history of ASL | 00:02:00 | ||
1.3.2 The French method of pedagogy | 00:10:00 | ||
1.3.3 Bilingual and literary traditions | 00:05:00 | ||
1.3.4 Challenges through two centuries of ASL history | 00:11:00 | ||
1.4.1 Language varieties | 00:13:00 | ||
1.4.2 Introducing the Historical Sign Language Database | 00:02:00 | ||
1.4.3 Analogy of the Rosetta Stone | 00:11:00 | ||
1.5.1 Developing tools for lexicography | 00:07:00 | ||
1.5.2 Notation with a slot and filler template | 00:04:00 | ||
1.5.3 A Dictionary of ASL on Linguistic Principles | 00:05:00 | ||
1.5.4 Chereology for sign notation | 00:05:00 | ||
1.5.5 Organizing a sign language lexicon | 00:08:00 | ||
1.5.6 Change in articulation across time | 00:04:00 | ||
1.5.7 Variation versus change in articulation | 00:06:00 | ||
1.5.8 Cross-linguistic difference in movement of hands | 00:04:00 | ||
1.6.1 Lexical encoding | 00:08:00 | ||
1.6.2 The psychological reality of sublexical processing | 00:05:00 | ||
1.6.3 Sign recall performance | 00:04:00 | ||
1.6.4 Spontaneous articulation errors | 00:09:00 | ||
1.6.5 Pseudo Signs | 00:03:00 | ||
1.6.6 Accent in sign language | 00:05:00 | ||
1.7.1 Linguistic principles for acceptability | 00:03:00 | ||
1.7.2 Process of change | 00:12:00 | ||
1.7.3 Sign shift toward opaque morphology | 00:03:00 | ||
1.7.4 Role of iconicity challenged | 00:03:00 | ||
1.7.5 A historical viewpoint on S-L-C | 00:03:00 | ||
1.8.1 Humanistic research on literary traditions | 00:08:00 | ||
1.8.2 Poetic techniques | 00:06:00 | ||
1.8.3 Change in prosody for percussion | 00:03:00 | ||
1.8.4 Sign innovation by adults | 00:07:00 | ||
1.8.5 Stylistics: A reflection of differing mindsets | 00:02:00 | ||
1.8.6 Sign innovation by children | 00:06:00 | ||
1.9.1 Not on the same page | 00:05:00 | ||
1.9.2 Shedding light on ASL as a heritage language | 00:09:00 | ||
Module 2: Factors Contributing to Natural Structure | |||
2.1.1 The Succinctness of ASL | 00:05:00 | ||
2.1.2 Information flow in the signer’s mind | 00:05:00 | ||
2.1.3 Typologies for combining morphemes | 00:03:00 | ||
2.1.4 Rate of transmission | 00:02:00 | ||
2.2.1 Suprasegmentals for clausal and lexical levels | 00:10:00 | ||
2.2.2 Sentence frame and constituents | 00:05:00 | ||
2.2.3 Application of a contour pattern | 00:05:00 | ||
2.2.4 Extending the scope of non-manual features | 00:01:00 | ||
2.3.1 Parts of the Sentence | 00:06:00 | ||
2.3.2 Conveying the non-manual adverb as verb inflection | 00:01:00 | ||
2.3.3 L2 challenges with the use of suprasegmentals | 00:05:00 | ||
2.4.1 Spatialized syntax and prosody | 00:01:00 | ||
2.4.2 Fundamentals for discourse composition | 00:05:00 | ||
2.4.3 Integrating multiple noun arguments into discourse | 00:12:00 | ||
2.4.4 Spatial distribution for noun arguments | 00:02:00 | ||
2.4.5 The vector grid in Early ASL | 00:02:00 | ||
2.5.1 Syntactic mechanisms | 00:10:00 | ||
2.5.3 Movement contours for transitive verbs | 00:01:00 | ||
2.6.1 Variation in the Lexicon | 00:02:00 | ||
2.6.2 Lexicalized complexity | 00:05:00 | ||
2.6.3 Lexicalized derivatives | 00:05:00 | ||
2.6.4 A review of inflection in modern ASL | 00:03:00 | ||
2.6.5 Encoding Inflections | 00:07:00 | ||
2.7.1 Disassociation of lexical articulation and inflection | 00:07:00 | ||
2.7.2 Requiring an abstract underlying form | 00:06:00 | ||
2.7.3 Creating surface forms | 00:08:00 | ||
2.7.4 Basic set up of concatenative platform | 00:03:00 | ||
2.7.5 A cognitive scaffold for integrating operations | 00:05:00 | ||
2.8.1 Disassociation of inflectional and lexical space | 00:06:00 | ||
2.8.2 Account for emergence of chereology | 00:06:00 | ||
2.8.3 History of hand configuration in ASL | 00:05:00 | ||
2.8.4 Loan words and lexical prosody | 00:04:00 | ||
2.9.2 Lexicalizing Verbs | 00:02:00 | ||
2.9.3 Verb Class Constraints | 00:02:00 | ||
2.9.4 Notation Models | 00:04:00 | ||
2.9.5 Underlying Representation | 00:01:00 | ||
3.1.1 Nurture v. Innate Grammar | 00:10:00 | ||
3.1.2 Emergent languages without schooling | 00:03:00 | ||
3.1.3 Meeting Hockett’s other criterion | 00:05:00 | ||
3.1.4 The naturalness of spatial grammar for sign language | 00:03:00 | ||
3.2.1 Trends in sign language pedagogy | 00:07:00 | ||
3.2.2 Morpho-cheremics in the DASL | 00:02:00 | ||
3.2.3 Efforts to emulate English in the visual modality | 00:05:00 | ||
3.2.4 Modifying sign features for a manual code of English | 00:05:00 | ||
3.2.5 Natural preference for a spatial grammar | 00:09:00 | ||
3.3.1 Best fit evolution of modality to language | 00:05:00 | ||
3.3.2 Stages and milestones for acquiring language | 00:09:00 | ||
3.3.3 Contributions from cognitive neuroscience | 00:01:00 | ||
3.3.4 Structured depiction and phrasal sequencing | 00:05:00 | ||
3.3.5 Scrutinizing the role of depiction in ASL grammar | 00:02:00 | ||
3.3.6 The Ongoing Debate on the Status of Depiction | 00:02:00 | ||
3.4.1 Checklist method for comparing word formation | 00:03:00 | ||
3.4.2 Perspectives on the use of classifiers | 00:04:00 | ||
3.4.3 Emergence of morphological continuum | 00:06:00 | ||
3.4.4 Cross-linguistic comparisons for morphology | 00:04:00 | ||
3.4.6 Discourse as interface of morphology and syntax | 00:07:00 | ||
3.4.7 From narrative elaboration and discourse to morphological continuum | 00:04:00 | ||
3.5.1 Morphocheremics for novel constructions | 00:05:00 | ||
3.5.2 Resolving the dilemma for universal grammar theory | 00:02:00 | ||
3.5.3 Promoting ASL as a heritage language | 00:04:00 | ||
3.5.4 Variety of classifiers for noun incorporation | 00:10:00 | ||
3.5.5 Reference frame and base grid contrasts | 00:02:00 | ||
3.5.6 Base grid as metaphorical frame | 00:03:00 | ||
3.6.1 Neurobiology of sign language | 00:10:00 | ||
3.6.2 Hemispheric Specialization | 00:07:00 | ||
3.6.3 What is the RH doing with spoken language? | 00:02:00 | ||
3.6.4 Neurolinguistic research on processing discourse type | 00:05:00 | ||
3.6.5 Effect of narrative elaboration on hemispheric activation | 00:06:00 | ||
3.7.1 Natural experiment on biological clock | 00:06:00 | ||
3.7.2 Verb of motion production mastery among adults | 00:03:00 | ||
3.7.3 Influence of the depiction potential on language learning | 00:03:00 | ||
3.7.4 Development phases in children learning sign language | 00:02:00 | ||
3.7.5 Development of ASL morphology | 00:05:00 | ||
3.7.6 Challenges for mastering this morphology | 00:05:00 | ||
3.7.7 The acquisition of layered rules | 00:03:00 | ||
3.7.8 Morpheme-to-word ratio | 00:04:00 | ||
3.8.1 Robustness of ASL grammar | 00:03:00 | ||
3.8.2 Working memory | 00:08:00 | ||
3.8.3 Encoding morphemes from deep structure | 00:03:00 | ||
3.8.4 Lexical activation and sentence trace | 00:05:00 | ||
3.8.5 Experiential factors | 00:05:00 | ||
3.9.1 Lexicon and morphology in contact registers | 00:10:00 | ||
3.9.2 Natural polyglottism and code switching | 00:08:00 | ||
3.9.3 Brain activation in signer vs. non-signer | 00:06:00 | ||
3.9.4 Hemispheric lateralization and language processing | 00:03:00 | ||
3.9.5 The demographics of signers | 00:07:00 | ||
4.0.1 Goals and objectives for Module 4 | 00:09:00 | ||
4.1.1 Explaining misperceptions on status of ASL | 00:05:00 | ||
4.1.2 Using the historical linguistic method | 00:05:00 | ||
4.1.3 Resolving the generalist’s dilemma | 00:06:00 | ||
4.1.4 Researching the dark period in ASL history 55577788844499 | 00:05:00 | ||
4.2.1 Gesture discourse | 00:12:00 | ||
4.2.2 Emergence of lexicon | 00:08:00 | ||
4.2.3 Gesture elicitation | 00:11:00 | ||
4.3.1 Sequencing patterns | 00:06:00 | ||
4.3.2 Ecosystem | 00:11:00 | ||
4.3.3 Gesture conventionalization | 00:09:00 | ||
4.3.4 A computerized database platform | 00:09:00 | ||
4.3.5 Verifying historical links | 00:09:00 | ||
4.3.6 Historical Linguistic Account of ASL | 00:03:00 | ||
4.4.1 Historical sociolinguistics | 00:08:00 | ||
4.4.2 Promoting the ideal sign language | 00:04:00 | ||
4.4.3 Considering language imperialism | 00:11:00 | ||
4.4.4 Benefit of archaeological approach | 00:03:00 | ||
4.4.5 Revisiting the history of ideas | 00:00:00 | ||
4.5.1 Pedagogy and diglossia | 00:08:00 | ||
4.5.2 Dactylology: Talking hands | 00:10:00 | ||
4.5.3 Positive and negative effects from intervention | 00:12:00 | ||
4.5.4 ASL registers across generations | 00:08:00 | ||
4.5.5 Promoting an ecological approach | 00:03:00 | ||
4.6.1 Promoting an ecological approach | 00:03:00 | ||
4.6.2 Reframing ASL heritage | 00:07:00 | ||
4.6.3 Early pedagogical practice | 00:09:00 | ||
4.6.4 Metaphorization and polysemy | 00:07:00 | ||
4.7.1 The merit of historical linguistic methods | 00:03:00 | ||
4.7.2 Metalanguage of 19th century scholars | 00:05:00 | ||
4.7.3 Evidence of rich morphology in early ASL | 00:03:00 | ||
4.7.4 Compounding signs | 00:06:00 | ||
4.7.5 Reconstructing compounds from opaque polywords | 00:06:00 | ||
4.7.6 Ongoing evolution of morphology | 00:02:00 | ||
4.8.1 Origin of bound morphology | 00:09:00 | ||
4.8.2 Sustaining paradigm for word formation | 00:03:00 | ||
4.8.3 Revealing selective reduction | 00:05:00 | ||
4.8.4 Evolution of gender and kinship morphemes | 00:10:00 | ||
4.8.5 The French connection | 00:03:00 | ||
4.9.1 The value of Deaf folklife films | 00:12:00 | ||
4.9.2 Polyword variation across dialects | 00:10:00 | ||
4.9.3 Morpheme sequence preservation | 00:04:00 | ||
4.9.4 Reanalysis of word phrase as a paradigm | 00:02:00 | ||
4.9.5 The grammaticalization process | 00:03:00 | ||
4.10.1 Reconciling the epistemological divide | 00:04:00 | ||
4.10.2 Viability of historical research | 00:03:00 | ||
Assessment | |||
Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
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