EIPA Transliteration and Signed English Systems 3

Question 1

What is Cued Speech and how does it differ from signed English systems?

Accepted Answer

Cued Speech uses handshapes near the face to clarify spoken phonemes and is not a sign language or signed English system

Answer

Cued Speech is a visual phonemic system using handshapes near the mouth to disambiguate speech sounds; unlike signed English systems, it is not a manual language but a supplement to spoken language lipreading.

Question 2

How does the Rochester Method differ from other manually coded English systems?

Accepted Answer

It relies solely on fingerspelling every English word simultaneously with speech, without using any signs

Answer

The Rochester Method involves speaking and simultaneously fingerspelling every word in English with no signs used at all, relying entirely on the manual alphabet.

Question 3

What does code-switching mean in the context of an educational interpreter?

Accepted Answer

Shifting between ASL and a signed English system or between registers in response to communicative context

Answer

Code-switching in interpreting refers to moving between linguistic systems such as ASL to Contact Signing in response to the interaction context, the participant's preferences, or the register of the communication.

Question 4

Which signed English system is most closely associated with the Total Communication philosophy adopted in many U.S. schools for the Deaf during the 1970s and 1980s?

Accepted Answer

Seeing Essential English (SEE I) and Signed Exact English (SEE II)

Answer

SEE I and SEE II became the dominant signed English systems used in Total Communication programs because they provided a visual representation of English intended to support English literacy development.

Question 5

How does English morphology affect sign production in Manually Coded English systems during educational interpreting?

Accepted Answer

English morphemes like plural -s, past tense -ed, and progressive -ing are each represented by separate distinct signs added to base signs

Answer

MCE systems like SEE II assign distinct signs to bound morphemes such as -s, -ed, -ing, -er, and -ment so that English inflectional and derivational morphology is visually represented alongside root word signs.

EIPA - Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment Practice Test

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EIPA Transliteration and Signed English Systems 3