Younger Deaf People's Attitudes Toward American Sign Language Structure

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dc.contributor.advisorWoodward, James
dc.contributor.advisorBerez-Kroeker, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorNoschese, Emily Jo
dc.contributor.departmentLinguistics
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-03T19:56:18Z
dc.date.available2022-03-03T19:56:18Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation presents the judgment of what is ‘correct’ American Sign Language(ASL) structure by the younger generation, using the word order strategies that were used in older generation signers, as well as younger generation attitudes towards the ideology of ASL being a SOV language. This study used an on-line survey to evaluate 83 participants in the United States and structured interviews were conducted with 10 participants. The analysis showed the younger generation accepted various ASL structures such as: SOV, SVO, the use of adpositions, unspecified/specified verbs and classifiers. Even though the younger generation knows the ideology that ASL is an SOV language, some of them could not tell the difference between SOV and SVO structures. It was concluded that the younger generation has the ideology of ASL being a SOV language, however, the real world ASL usage did not align with the ideology.
dc.description.degreePh.D.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/81644
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.subjectAmerican Sign Language
dc.titleYounger Deaf People's Attitudes Toward American Sign Language Structure
dc.typeThesis
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local.identifier.alturihttp://dissertations.umi.com/hawii:11212

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