Ameslan orig. U.S.
(ˈæməslæn)
[Acronym, f. the name American Sign Language.]
= American Sign Language s.v. American a. 3. Cf. ASL s.v. A III.
| 1972 L. J. Fant (title) Ameslan: an introduction to American Sign Language. 1976 Sci. Amer. Dec. 136/1 The deaf..use Ameslan fluently. 1977 Savage & Rumbaugh in D. M. Rumbaugh Lang. Learning by Chimpanzee xvi. 304 Apes are relatively facile in the learning of arbitrary representations (i.e., Ameslan signs, lexigrams, words). 1979 Amer. Speech 1978 LIII. 273 Ameslan is..as much like a spoken language as it possibly could be. |