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This 20-word sign language word search covers key concepts in ASL acquisition and language development for college students or advanced learners. Hidden words include fingerspelling, classifiers, topicalization, and motherese, spanning communication methods, language structures, and developmental stages. Use it as a review activity in a linguistics or deaf-studies course, or edit it as a reference template for related language-development topics.

Subject:
Foreign Languages
Topic:
American Sign Language
Grade Level:
College
Updated February 2018

Word List

  • COMMUNICATION
  • FINGERSPELLING
  • BABYSIGNS
  • GESTURES
  • FACIALEXPRESSIONS
  • VERBALBABBLING
  • MANUALBABBLING
  • SIGNHANDSHAPS
  • MOTHERESE
  • FIRSTSIGNS
  • EYECONTACT
  • CLASSIFIERS
  • TOPICALIZATION
  • WHQUESTIONS
  • VERBAGREEMENT
  • DIRECTIONALVERBS
  • COMPLEXSENTENCES
  • LANGUAGEDEVELOPMENT
  • BABYTALK
  • TOUCH

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