ASL 102 GRAMMARS - TAKE HOME REVIEW QUIZ
1.
What is ASL Prosody?
2.
To get the attention of others, Deaf people would:
a. touching another’s arm/shoulder
b. waving in peripheral vision
c. asking a third person to get the other’s attention
d. stomp hard on the floor or on table
e. all of the above
3.
To ask a YES/NO question, a signer should do the following three
things:
a. lower eyebrows
b. lean head forward
c. hold the last sign in the sentence
d. raise eyebrows
4.
What is the difference between lexicalized fingerspelling and
abbreviations?
5.
Facial expression and head movements while signing are called:
a. expressive signing
b. non-essential modifiers
c. non-manual grammatical signs
6.
What are three ways the Deaf people maintain clear sightlines
during conversations?
1.
2.
3.
7.
What is the difference between ordinal and cardinal numbers?
8.
To ask a wh-question (WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, HOW)
the signer should do the following three things:
a. raise eyebrows
b. lean head forward
c. hold the last sign in the sentence
d. lower eyebrows
9.
To show that a location is a FAR AWAY what NMGS you should
use?
a. use “cs” clench teeth
b. purse lip
c. squint eyes
10.
Write two examples of the compound signs:
1.
2.
11.
_____________________ are signs that are used to provide
information about the verb in a sentence, occurring directly
before the verb, or at the end of the sentence, or directly before
the verb and at the end of sentence.
12.
GLOSS the following sentence using a time indicator phrase:
“A student goes to gym on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 9:30 am”
13.
To describe tall man, which three things you should do:
a. eye gaze
b. produce “oo” mouth
c. sign CL “tall”
d. produce “cha” mouth
14.
Gloss the following sentence using “FINISH”
“Have you already eaten?”
15.
The parameters has five elements of every signs, what are they:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
16.
Write an example of inflecting verbs (directional) sentence
17.
When talking about people, places, or things that are not in
immediate environment it is important to establish these referents
in space. Referents are established by naming what is referred to
and then pointing to the location. This is called using
____________________________________________________.
18.
Classifiers are an extremely important component of ASL.
Identify one category of classifiers and describe their function in
the language (what type of information do they convey?)
19.
GLOSS the following sentence using strong modal verb - MUST.
“A man drinks his coffee every morning”
20.
What are 4 types of ASL negations?
1.
2.
3.
4.
21.
When signing ASL topicalization, what NMGS you should do:
TOPIC
1.
2.
3.
COMMENT 1.
2.
22.
Explain four types of deafness:
1. pre-lingually deafness –
2. post-lingually deafness –
3. hard of hearing –
4. deaf and dumb –
23.
GLOSS the following sentence into topic & comment structure.
“I have seven black chairs”
24.
What is the difference between modals, tense markers and aspect
markers?
25.
GLOSS the following statement into ASL conditional sentence
“If it rains, the ball game will be cancelled.”