With my computer back online, I’m returning to the Mouth Morpheme list with four separate markers, MM, ooo, AHH, and IS, on the ASL hand sign for Smart.
By adding Mouth Morphemes to this animated cartoon of my ASL teacher Charlie, the video shows five separate ASL words for intelligence. I’ve listed each marker on the cartoon’s left to make the lip movement clearer.
Studying this visual grammar also helped me understand the complications of ASL communication with the COVID-19 mask mandates. While a mask can muffle the spoken word, it can hide essential details in American Sign Language.
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