{"id":7257,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/american_sign_language_-asl\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:54:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:55","slug":"american_sign_language_-asl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/american_sign_language_-asl\/","title":{"rendered":"American Sign Language (ASL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nidcd.nih.gov\/health\/hearing\/pages\/asl.aspx\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.nidcd.nih.gov\/health\/hearing\/pages\/asl.aspx&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Sign Language<\/a> is a system of communication for deaf people in which meaning is conveyed by hand signals and the position of the hands relative to other body parts (see figure below). &nbsp;For historical reasons, many of its signs are more closely related to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.babies-and-sign-language.com\/french-sign-language-lsf.html\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.babies-and-sign-language.com\/french-sign-language-lsf.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">French sign language<\/a>&nbsp;than to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishsignlanguage.com\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.britishsignlanguage.com\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British sign language<\/a>. &nbsp;Chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans have been taught to use ASL, with evidence suggesting that they then seem to communicate with it at the level of a 5-year-old human. &nbsp;Some ape language researchers regard such evidence as rather controversial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; \">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image013.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; \">American sign language: finger spellings for each letter of the alphabet<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"british_sign_language_-bsl-\">British sign language (BSL)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Sign Language is a system of communication for deaf people in which meaning is conveyed by hand signals and the position of the hands relative to other body parts (see figure below). &nbsp;For historical reasons, many of its signs are more closely related to&nbsp;French sign language&nbsp;than to&nbsp;British sign language. &nbsp;Chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/american_sign_language_-asl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Sign Language (ASL)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}