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William Clarence “Bill” Stokoe Jr. (July 21, 1919 – April 4, 2000) was an American linguist and a long-time professor at Gallaudet University.[1]

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  1. 21 relations: American Sign Language, American Sign Language grammar, Bachelor of Arts, Carl Croneberg, Chevy Chase, Maryland, Cornell University, Doctor of Philosophy, Dorothy Casterline, Gallaudet University, Handshape, Lancaster, New Hampshire, Language, Location (sign language), Movement (sign language), Phoneme, Phonology, Sign language, Sign Language Studies, SignWriting, Stokoe notation, Wells College.

  2. Gallaudet University faculty
  3. Linguists of sign languages
  4. People involved with sign language
  5. Wells College faculty

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. William Stokoe and American Sign Language are deaf culture in the United States.

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American Sign Language grammar

The grammar of American Sign Language (ASL) has rules just like any other sign language or spoken language.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Carl Croneberg

Carl Gustav Arvid Olof Croneberg (April 26, 1930 – August 7, 2022) was a Swedish-American Deaf linguist known for his work on American Sign Language (ASL). William Stokoe and Carl Croneberg are Gallaudet University faculty and linguists from the United States.

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Chevy Chase, Maryland

Chevy Chase is the colloquial name of an area that includes a town, several incorporated villages, and an unincorporated census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland; and one adjoining neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C. Most of these derive from a late-19th-century effort to create a new suburb that its developer dubbed Chevy Chase after a colonial land patent.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Dorothy Casterline

Dorothy Chiyoko Sueoka Casterline (April 27, 1928 – August 8, 2023) was an American deaf linguist known for her contribution to A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, considered a foundational work of sign language linguistics. William Stokoe and Dorothy Casterline are Gallaudet University faculty, linguists from the United States, linguists of sign languages and People involved with sign language.

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Gallaudet University

Gallaudet University is a private federally chartered university in Washington, D.C., for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. William Stokoe and Gallaudet University are deaf culture in the United States.

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Handshape

In sign languages, handshape, or dez, refers to the distinctive configurations that the hands take as they are used to form words.

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Lancaster, New Hampshire

Lancaster is a town located along the Connecticut River in Coös County, New Hampshire, United States.

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Language

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.

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Location (sign language)

In sign languages, location, or tab, refers to specific places that the hands occupy as they are used to form signs.

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Movement (sign language)

In sign languages, movement, or sig, refers to the distinctive hand actions that form words.

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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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Phonology

Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs.

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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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Sign Language Studies

Sign Language Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering basic and applied research relating to sign languages used throughout the world.

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SignWriting

Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a system of writing sign languages.

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Stokoe notation

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

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Wells College

Wells College was a private liberal arts college in Aurora, New York, located in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

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See also

Gallaudet University faculty

Linguists of sign languages

People involved with sign language

Wells College faculty

References

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

Also known as Stokoe, William, William C. Stokoe, William C. Stokoe, Jr., William Stokoe, Jr..