Introduction
Title: Comparison of
American Sign Language
Versus Worldwide Sign
Language Dialects
Target Audience: Adults in
the age bracket of 25-55
Facts
Other Countries SL
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Morphology
Phonology
Other Countries SL
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Morphology
Phonology
Canada
The dialect is very
different from ASL in the
United States and has
regional differences in
Canada from east to west.
Most signers from eastern
Canada use ASL, but with
some British Sign Language
vocabulary.
Structurally and
grammatically distinct
from Quebec Sign
Language (LSQ).
Auslan
Auslan recently was pulled from the
words Australian Sign Language, but the
language is not new.
It is very complex in grammar and
lexicon.
The language is not purely gestural.
Some signs are iconic, but it is mostly
arbitrary; similar to ASL.
References
Nakamura, Karen (2002) About
Japanese Sign Language. Website. <
http://www.deaflibrary.org/jsl.html>
References continued
American Sign Language: A Language of USA.
July 2002. Ethnologue: Languages of the
World, 14th Ed. Dec. 2001 <http://
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?_code=ASE>
http://www.sil.org/mexico/lenguajes-de-signos/G009i
-Identity-MFS.pdf
>