Variability in the Representation of the ASL Fingerspelled Alphabet

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Publicado no:Sign Language Studies vol. 25, no. 3 (Spring 2025), p. 426-449
Autor principal: Shield, Aaron
Outros Autores: Ferris, Lauren Long
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100 1 |a Shield, Aaron  |u holds a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and completed postdoctoral training in psychology at the University of Chicago and Boston University. He is currently associate professor of speech pathology and audiology at Miami University and the associate editor of the journal Autism and Developmental Language Impairments 
245 1 |a Variability in the Representation of the ASL Fingerspelled Alphabet 
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520 3 |a The American Sign Language (ASL) fingerspelled alphabet is often a starting point for novice sign learners. The twenty-six handshapes of the alphabet are typically compiled into visual pedagogical materials designed to help learners master this cornerstone of sign learning. Second-language sign learners often make mistakes in their signing that are related to the fact that signs are visual symbols which thus appear differently depending on one's perspective. In this study, we analyzed fifty-two commonly available representations of the ASL alphabet to determine the degree of variability exhibited among these materials for general characteristics, such as the medium employed (photographs, digital illustrations, or hand drawings), inclusion of alphabet graphemes and/or object images, and representations of diversity, as well as five parameters related to perspective-taking: perspective on the sign (signer/addressee), angle of hand (0, 45, or 90 degrees), directionality of hand (facing left, right, or front), hand selection (left or right hand), and depiction of movement. We discovered a high degree of variability in the way that ASL handshapes are represented pictorially, with most of the letters of the alphabet exhibiting either moderate or high variability in the perspectives, angles, and directionalities of the hand portrayed. We conclude that there is a great deal of heterogeneity in the way that the ASL finger-spelling alphabet is represented in didactic materials, and we suggest ways that educators and publishers can improve their teaching materials by incorporating multiple visual perspectives. 
653 |a Educational materials 
653 |a Phonology 
653 |a Sign language 
653 |a Drawings 
653 |a Teaching 
653 |a American Sign Language 
653 |a Variability 
653 |a Autism 
653 |a Graphemes 
653 |a Photography 
653 |a Language acquisition 
653 |a Linguistics 
653 |a Hands 
653 |a Teachers 
653 |a Adult students 
653 |a Fingerspelling 
653 |a Adult learning 
653 |a Visual artists 
653 |a Deafness 
653 |a Perspective taking 
653 |a Errors 
653 |a Spelling 
653 |a Handshapes 
653 |a Alphabet letters 
653 |a Spatial Ability 
653 |a Finger Spelling 
653 |a Adult Basic Education 
653 |a Autism Spectrum Disorders 
653 |a English 
653 |a Alphabets 
653 |a Signs 
653 |a Control Groups 
653 |a Instructional Materials 
653 |a Orthographic Symbols 
653 |a Novices 
653 |a Second Language Learning 
653 |a Phonemes 
653 |a Phonetics 
700 1 |a Ferris, Lauren Long  |u earned her master's degree in speech-language pathology from Miami University and her bachelor's degree in communication sciences and disorders from the University of Cincinnati. During her studies, she contributed to research on American Sign Language acquisition (SLAM Lab, Miami University) and multilingualism in preschool children (PedLLS Lab, University of Cincinnati). She now specializes in working with preschool children who are deaf or hard of hearing 
773 0 |t Sign Language Studies  |g vol. 25, no. 3 (Spring 2025), p. 426-449 
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