Questions tagged [asl]

American Sign Language (ASL), the predominant sign language of the USA and Canada

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Fingerspelling and handedness in ASL

The fingerspelling sign for "L" actually looks like a written "L" when it is made with palm out and with the right hand. If a signer's dominant hand is their left one, how should they make this sign - with palm out, so that it look likes a backward…
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How is Manually Coded English (MCE) different from American Sign Language (ASL)?

I read about MCE in Yule’s The Study of Language and it raised my curiosity on how different MCE is from ASL.