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ASL and grammar
ASL grammar is completely unrelated to that
of English
.

However, there is no one-to-one correspondence between words in
ASL and English, and
the inflectional modulation
of ASL signs —
a dominant part
of the grammar — is lost
.

American Sign Language
( ASL )-manual language with
its own syntax and
grammar, used primarily
by people who are deaf
.

Australasian Signed English
was created in
the late 1970s to represent English words and
grammar, using mostly Auslan signs together with some additional contrived signs, as well as borrowings
from American Sign Language
( ASL ).

Within Bilingual-Bicultural models, Cued Speech does not borrow or invent signs
from ASL, nor does CS attempt to change
ASL syntax or
grammar.

Furthermore, regardless
of the individual signs used,
the grammar used is clearly ISL and not
ASL.
ASL and was

A similar French influence is seen in classroom
ASL in francophone West Africa, where
ASL was introduced along with formal education
for the deaf
by the deaf American missionary Andrew Foster
.

Other languages, such as Thai Sign Language, developed as
a creole
of ASL and indigenous sign ;
a similar situation may have occurred with Malaysian Sign Language,
which in turn
was the base
of Indonesian Sign Language
.

Moroccan Sign Language
was developed
by the American Peace Corps on
a base
of ASL along with incorporating local signs
.

For
much of its history,
ASL was not written
.

An unidentified oriole
was heard on May 14, 1994, at 1, 000 meters
ASL south
of the summit
of Camiguin in
the Philippines, where
the genus
was not previously known to occur
.

When his favorite game
was sold along with Avalon Hill to Hasbro, Schilling joined
the small gaming company Multi-Man Publishing
which maintained
ASL and other Avalon Hill titles
.

** On this stretch also
was the summit
of the line at Ais Gill, 1169 ft
( 350 m )
ASL

Their first publication
was Backblast,
a fanzine
for Avalon Hill's wargame Advanced Squad Leader
( ASL ).

In late 1995, professional baseball player Curt Schilling, who
was a devoted player
of ASL, separately also tried to buy
the rights to
ASL.

After Avalon Hill
was sold to Hasbro in 1999, MMP negotiated to license
ASL from Hasbro
.

Washoe
was named
for Washoe County, Nevada, where she
was raised and taught to use
ASL.

The Anthropological Society
of London
( ASL )
was founded in 1863 as an institutional home
for those who disagreed with
the Ethnological Society's politics
( in terms
of party loyalties, Stocking makes
the political complexion
of the ESL 75 % Liberal to 25 % Conservative, with
the proportions reversed in
the ASL ).
ASL contains many signs initialised
from an alphabet
which was also derived
from LSF, and Auslan users, already familiar with
the related ISL alphabet, accepted many
of the new signs easily
.

Prior to
the development
of closed captioning,
it was not uncommon to
see some public television broadcasts translated into
ASL by an on-screen interpreter
.

A noticeable example
was the American Soccer League
( ASL ), which formed in 1919
.

During
the days
of the ASL,
the league
was seen as widely popular, and considered to be
the second most popular sports league in
the United States, only behind Major League Baseball
.

Additional variations on
ASL include Deluxe
ASL ( DASL
), which was a short-lived experiment in fusing miniature wargaming with
ASL ; Historical
ASL ( HASL
), which used historically accurate maps, usually in
a campaign setting where
the outcome
of one scenario affected
the setup
of following scenarios ; Solitaire
ASL ( SASL ) with many rules changes
for fog
of war and command to enhance solitaire play ; and
the ASL Starter Kits
( ASLSK
), a series
of stand-alone introductory kits
.
ASL and for

For example, there are more
than six signs
for birthday in
ASL, just as in English one can say couch and sofa, or soda and pop, to mean
the same thing
.

A sign that may be lowered to
the cheek level
by an
ASL speaker is more likely to be produced
by a Black Sign Language speaker on
the forehead,
for example: teacher
.

Bolivian Sign Language,
for example, is essentially
ASL,
apart from changes in initialized signs to make them match
the spelling
of Spanish
.

See American Sign Language family
for an incomplete list
of ASL varieties used outside North America
.

In
the 1960s linguist William Stokoe created
the first writing system
for a sign language,
the so-called Stokoe notation,
which he designed specifically
for ASL.

Stokoe used
it for his 1965 A Dictionary
of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles,
the first dictionary with entries in
ASL — that is,
the first dictionary
which one could use to look up
a sign without first knowing
its conventional gloss in English
.

Several additional candidates
for written
ASL have appeared in over
the years, including Sutton SignWriting, Sign Script, ASL-phabet, and Si5s
.

Typically, young children will make an
ASL sign in
the correct location and use
the correct hand motion, but may be able only to approximate
the hand shape,
for example, using one finger instead
of three in signing water
.

Many parents today purchase “ Baby Signs ” DVDs and books
which incorporate
ASL signs
for infant and toddler communication
.

Free online lessons,
ASL dictionary, and resources
for teachers, students, and parents
.

* American Sign Language is
a Foreign Language –
a research / argumentative paper
for the consideration
of ASL to fulfill University foreign language requirements
.
ASL is
a common initialism
for American Sign Language, and may also refer to:

Other aspects in
ASL include
the following: stative, inchoative (" to begin to ..."), predisposional (" to tend to ..."), susceptative (" to ... easily "), frequentative (" to ... often "), protractive (" to ... continuously "), incessant (" to ... incessantly "), durative (" to ...
for a long time "), iterative (" to ... over and over again "), intensive (" to ... very
much "), resultative (" to ... completely "), approximative (" to ... somewhat "), semblitive (" to appear to ..."), increasing (" to ... more and more ").

Aspect is unusual in
ASL in that transitive verbs derived
for aspect lose their grammatical transitivity
.

See Syntax in
ASL for details
.

There are over
a hundred glyphs
for hand shapes, but all
the ones used in
ASL are based on five basic elements:

* ASL-phabet,
a minimal script
for ASL
ASL also sets
the record
for sheer volume
of playing components, with thousands
of official counters and 60 + " geomorphic mapboards " not counting Deluxe and Historical maps
.

Tertiary education in
the US
for some deaf Australian adults also accounts
for some
ASL borrowings found in modern Auslan
.

The
ASL marker
for " intensity " is iconic in that
the intended meaning
( building
of pressure,
a sudden release ) is matched
by the articulatory form
( a pause,
a quick completion ).
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