Sign language Lesson 32 of the language course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Sign languages are full, real languages made with the hands, face and body, with their own words and their own grammar, as rich as any spoken language. 1 At a club Lily watches Sam, a Deaf boy, sign to his mum so fast her eyes can't keep up; it isn't English spelled on the hands, it's British Sign Language, a different language altogether. 2 There is not one sign language for the whole world: Britain has BSL, America has ASL, Ukraine has Ukrainian Sign Language, and even countries that share English have very different sign languages. 3 Faces matter as much as hands: raised eyebrows can turn a sentence into a question, so a signer's expressions are grammar, not rudeness. 4 Babies who see signing even "babble" with their hands, which shows that language lives in the brain, not just in the mouth. 5 British Sign Language (BSL) is a full language with its own grammar, different from English; it uses hand shapes, movements, the face and the body. 6 People who are part of Deaf culture and use sign language often write Deaf with a capital D. 7 American Sign Language (ASL) and BSL are different languages; ASL is related to French Sign Language. 8 BSL fingerspelling uses two hands, ASL fingerspelling uses one; fingerspelling is for names and words without a sign. 9 In sign languages, facial expressions are part of the grammar: raised eyebrows can turn a sentence into a yes/no question. 10 In 2022 a new British law said that BSL is a real language of England, Scotland and Wales. 11 BSL, Auslan (Australian Sign Language) and New Zealand Sign Language belong to one family, so their signers understand each other quite well. 13 In BSL a simple "hello" is a wave; when talking to a Deaf person, face them, speak clearly if they lip-read, and don't shout. 14 Sign language interpreters translate live between spoken language and sign language, so Deaf people can follow things like the news. 15 Ukrainian Sign Language is a separate language, so a Deaf boy from Ukraine moving to London needs to learn BSL, just as hearing children learn English. ← previous How babies learn to talknext → Ukrainian compared with English↑ back to Language This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/32-sign-language/