Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Chinese Natural Sign Language(also: CNSL)
- Chinese Natural Sign Language (CNSL) is the language used by roughly twenty million Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people in China. Unlike Chinese Sign Language (CSL) — an artificial, school-and-broadcast system that follows spoken Mandarin word order — CNSL has its own spatial-visual…
- Classifiers (Sign Language)(also: Classifier Predicates, CL (Sign Language))
- Productive handshape-based constructions in sign languages that represent a class of referents — a vehicle, a flat object, a person walking, a small round object — and show their location, movement, shape, and interaction in signing space. Classifiers are a core part of ASL…
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