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Mouthing, the Glossary

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In sign language, mouthing is the production of visual syllables with the mouth while signing.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 16 relations: American Sign Language, Auslan, Code-switching, Cued speech, Expression (sign language), Homophone, Iconicity, Initialized sign, Lip reading, Luganda, Oralism, Phoneme, Sign language, Stokoe notation, Syllable, Ugandan Sign Language.

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  3. Sign language

American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.

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Auslan

Auslan (Australian Sign Language) is the sign language used by the majority of the Australian Deaf community.

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Code-switching

In linguistics, code-switching or language alternation occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation or situation.

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Cued speech

Cued speech is a visual system of communication used with and among deaf or hard-of-hearing people.

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Expression (sign language)

In sign languages, expressions are the distinctive body postures and facial expressions that accompany signing, and which are necessary to properly form words. Mouthing and expression (sign language) are sign language and sign language stubs.

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Homophone

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to a varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning.

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Iconicity

In functional-cognitive linguistics, as well as in semiotics, iconicity is the conceived similarity or analogy between the form of a sign (linguistic or otherwise) and its meaning, as opposed to arbitrariness (which is typically assumed in structuralist, formalist and generative approaches to linguistics).

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Initialized sign

In sign language, an initialized sign is one that is produced with a handshape(s) that corresponds to the fingerspelling of its equivalent in the locally dominant oral language, based on the respective manual alphabet representing that oral language's orthography. Mouthing and initialized sign are linguistic morphology, linguistic morphology stubs, sign language and sign language stubs.

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Lip reading

Lip reading, also known as speechreading, is a technique of understanding a limited range of speech by visually interpreting the movements of the lips, face and tongue without sound.

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Luganda

Ganda or Luganda (Oluganda) is a Bantu language spoken in the African Great Lakes region.

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Oralism

Oralism is the education of deaf students through oral language by using lip reading, speech, and mimicking the mouth shapes and breathing patterns of speech.

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Phoneme

In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.

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Sign language

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words.

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Stokoe notation

Stokoe notation is the first phonemic script used for sign languages.

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Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).

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Ugandan Sign Language

Ugandan Sign Language (USL) is the deaf sign language of Uganda.

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See also

Mouth

Sign language

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouthing