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Jolanta Agnieszka Lapiak is a Polish-born Canadian artist, deaf activist, and creator of Handspeak, an online English-to-American Sign Language dictionary. Education and career [ edit ] Lapiak was born in 1972 in Wroclaw , Poland , and later moved to Canada, where she attended the Alberta School for the Deaf .
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. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features . [5]
ASLwrite ( ASL: ) is a writing system that developed from si5s. [1] It was created to be an open-source, continuously developing orthography for American Sign Language (ASL), trying to capture the nuances of ASL's features. ASLwrite is only used by a handful of people, primarily revolving around discussions happening on Facebook [2] and ...
InterSign ASL. InterSign ASL is a relatively new visual-only app with more than 90 lessons. It offers a dictionary, glossary, and games. The developers are planning to include sign variants ...
Signing Exact English ( SEE-II, sometimes Signed Exact English) is a system of manual communication that strives to be an exact representation of English language vocabulary and grammar. It is one of a number of such systems in use in English-speaking countries. It is related to Seeing Essential English (SEE-I), a manual sign system created in ...
Handshape. In sign languages, handshape, or dez, refers to the distinctive configurations that the hands take as they are used to form words. [1] In Stokoe terminology it is known as the DEZ, an abbreviation of designator. Handshape is one of five components of a sign, along with location ( TAB ), orientation ( ORI ), movement ( SIG ), and ...
The simplest visual form of fingerspelling is tracing the shape of letters in the air and the simplest tactual form is tracing them on the hand. Fingerspelling can be one-handed such as in American Sign Language, French Sign Language and Irish Sign Language, or it can be two-handed such as in British Sign Language .
American Sign Language phonology. Sign languages such as American Sign Language (ASL) are characterized by phonological processes analogous to, yet dissimilar from, those of oral languages. Although there is a qualitative difference from oral languages in that sign-language phonemes are not based on sound, and are spatial in addition to being ...