455 ;;Quote: no categorical perception for fluent ASL signers; sharp crossovers in labeling, yet can discriminate similar stimuli in the same category

461 ;;Quote: natural languages use a simple morphology for words; e.g., singular vs. plural and shell-like word structure about the root

463 ;;Quote: mimetic depiction in American Sign Language is like morphology in spoken languages; small number of discrete components and combinations

463+;;Quote: American Sign Language has a standardized lexicon of signs and a sign mime of handshapes, movements, and positions

469 ;;Quote: in ASL mimetic depiction there are 7 movement roots, i.e., verbs of motion and location; e.g., hold root to indicate "be stationary"

475 ;;Quote: morphological dimensions in mimetic ASL for movement, handshape, orientation, manner, basehand, and process morphemes; e.g., FLY vs. AIRPLANE

477 ;;Quote: mimetic sign language is like spoken language: complex forms from a small number of discrete components in a shell-like structure

477+;;Quote: languages have a highly analytic, shell-like structure because of learning

480 ;;Quote: the stages of writing systems are pictographic, logographic, syllabary, and alphabetic; evolves when adapted by a new culture

480 ;;Quote: pidgin languages are cross cultural; isolating with little or no morphology, grammar by word order

480+;;Quote: creole languages are created by children born to pidgin speakers; universally include internal morphology for words

481 ;;Quote: mimetic sign language learned by second-generation deaf; they regularize the handshapes and movements of the ASL lexicon into useful components

481 ;;Quote: learning can produce a more highly structured language than the original; e.g., internal morphology of creole and mimetic ASL