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Feelings and Mouthing Movements in ASL

This week, I continued using ASL Deafined, specifically spending most of my time learning about how to sign certain feelings (tired, cold, hungry, etc). Of course, expressing feelings is crucial across languages, and is often one of the first things … Continue reading

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ASL Deafined

I finally signed up for ASL Deafined! Being one of my first ideas when I started putting together my proposal for this independent study, I’m surprised it took me so long to subscribe, but I finally did it. This week, … Continue reading

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Eyebrows in ASL

I started this week with the initial goal to continue my study of high frequency signs in ASL and report back here with some of the cool ones that I learned. However, as I have found happens often throughout the … Continue reading

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High Frequency Words

This week, I learned a lot more high frequency words in ASL. Some of these included learning the difference between “your” and “you”, and learning how to sign “student” and “teacher”. There were many more, but I thought these were … Continue reading

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Intimate Register & Name Signs

In continuing the discussion about registers from my last post, I mentioned that I would create a separate blog post to delve further into understanding the intimate register of ASL, as it is far more important than it may seem! … Continue reading

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Register in ASL (Informal v. Formal Signing)

Throughout my study of ASL thus far, one key element that has come up several times is the importance of recognizing and understanding registers. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, in linguistics, register simply refers to the degree of formality … Continue reading

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Welcome!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog! As this is my first post regarding my study of American Sign Language (ASL), I wanted to introduce myself and my motivation for this project before anything else. My name is Will … Continue reading

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