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edXAmerican Sign Language Science
105 studentsBEGINNEREnglish
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Understand signed language as a linguistic system
This course treats ASL as a full language—not a transcription of English in signs. You'll explore how ASL grammar emerged from natural gesture, how it varies across regions and communities, and what constraints the visual and motoric nature of signing places on the system. By comparing ASL to spoken languages and other signed languages, the course illuminates universal principles of human language as well as features unique to the signing modality.
Ideal for linguists, ASL students, educators, and anyone curious about how language structure adapts to different channels of production and perception.
About this course
Identify the historical origins in natural gesture for the emergence of ASL grammar. ,Describe the degree and types of structural variation within ASL, considering the possible influences from its contacts with other signed and spoken languages. ,Discuss the role of visual analogy in learning ASL, considering the possible linguistic universals for signed languages. ,List ways in which language specific variation and historical change for signed languages may compare and contrast to those for spoken languages. ,Describe the visual, motoric, and cognitive constraints which may give rise to these phenomena.
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