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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
In the Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change course by edX, you will learn how the American Sign Language (ASL) and other sign languages are structured and layered grammatically. You will also study the learning process, and the learning curve associated with these languages and how easy (or difficult) children and adults find it to use and understand a sign language.
Sign languages, just like every other language, change over time. Recent research on the history and evolutionary changes in various sign languages like ASL, and more has started to reveal how sign languages came into existence, how they have changed over time and continue to change as they are used by deaf and hearing individuals, over generations. In the Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change programme, you will study these changes in detail.
The Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change certification course is a four-week, self-paced learning programme, developed by Georgetown University. The video lectures are delivered in ASL, with English voiceover and subtitles. The curriculum, divided into various modules, is advanced-level.
The Highlights
- Online course
- Lectures in ASL
- Four-week course
- Self-paced learning
- Five-six hours weekly
- Advanced programme in language
- Free access to learning material
- English voiceover and transcripts
- Georgetown University programme
- Shareable completion certificate
- Certification fee payable online
Programme Offerings
- Lectures in ASL
- Online Course
- English voiceover and transcripts
- Self-paced learning
- Four-week course
- Five-six hours weekly
- Advanced programme
- Georgetown University programme
- Free access to learning material
- Verified conclusion certificate
Courses and Certificate Fees
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What you will learn
After completing the Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change training, learners should possess a methodical comprehension of:
- The emergence of ASL grammar
- Historical origins in natural gestures
- Role of visual analogy in learning ASL
- Visual, cognitive, and motoric constraints
- Possible linguistic universals for sign languages
- Types and degree of structural variation within ASL
- Other spoken and sign languages and their influence on ASL
- Comparing and contrasting sign languages and spoken languages in terms of historical change and language-specific variation
Admission Details
Step 1: Firstly access Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change course page on the official edX website, click on this link: https://www.edx.org/learn/sign-language/georgetown-university-sign-language-structure-learning-and-change
Step 2: Click on the ‘Enroll’ button to proceed to the account creation page.
Step 3: Fill out the form to create an edX account or click on ‘Sign in’ if you already have an account and enter your credentials. You can register by linking your existing Google/Microsoft/Facebook/Apple account to edX.
Step 4: Follow on-screen instructions to complete the email verification process, and then you can start studying.
Application Details
No application/registration forms or documents are required to be submitted for joining Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change certification course. Submit your name (full), email ID, country/region of residence, and build a username (for public use) and a password for your edX account.
The Syllabus
- Fundamental issues for language status
- Emergence and evolution of sign language
- History of American Sign Language
- Variation and change within ASL
- Lexical representation and annotation
- Cognitive processing
- From transparent to opaque morphology
- Literary innovation constrained by grammar
- Framework for Sign Language Structure, Learning and Change
- Sign features and syntactic packaging
- Co-articulation and timing of suprasegmentals
- Interaction of syntax and prosody
- The spatial architecture for linguistic scaffolding
- Reference frame and spatial verb typology
- Core lexemes and frozen derivatives
- Layering of lexical representation and articulatory operations
- Linear template and syntactic agreement slots
- Optimizing loan words for syntactic agreement
- Split between inflectional space and lexicon
- Biological and environmental factors for language acquisition and evolution
- Challenge of designing a visual language based on English morphology
- Potential impact of visual analogy on grammar
- Morphological typology and complexity
- The neurobiology of sign language processing
- Reframing ASL as a classifier predicate language
- Acquisition of ASL morphology
- Best-fit architecture and cognitive scaffolding
- Factors affecting homogenous use of sign language
- Natural experiment for language evolution
- Sign language archaeology
- Emergence of grammar
- Gestural discourse dynamics and collective memory
- Historical sociolinguistics
- History of polyglottism and diglossia in Deaf community
- Reconstructing early ASL grammar
- From syntax to bound morphology
- Development of bound morphology
- The current state of sign language structure, learning and change