Psychology 2134A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Village Sign Language, Israeli Sign Language, Deaf-Community Sign Language

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Sarah Smits- Bandstra

Document Summary

Sign language is a linguistic system that is perceived visually and produced through hand movements and facial expressions. Use sign language" to refer to a particular language and signed language to refer to the expression of language in the manual visual mode. Since there is high degree of intermarriage in small rural villages, village sign language arises: used by entire community, passed from generation to generation. Nicaraguan sign language: took about two decades for its grammar and vocabulary to become systematized. Israeli sign language: arose as a deal community sign language in israel less than a century ago, four generations of signers live in the israeli deaf community today, 10,000 members. American sign language: approximately a quarter of a million people use asl as their primary language. It developed at the american school for the deaf in hartford: evolved from a mixture of french sign language and the various home and village sign languages already in use.