ASL Grammar: "ASKING QUESTIONS" n When you listen to someone speak, you listen to the tone and rise and fall of their voice (intonation). These variations add meaning to the message. In ASL these variations are shown by facial and body expression. The raised eyebrow, the tilted head, shape of the mouth, etc. shape the meaning of what the signer is saying. Non-Manual Markers in American Sign Language (ASL) We recently received an email from a student about the use of non-manual markers. This person wanted to know how non-manual markers are used in American Sign Language. Parameter #5: Non-Manual Markers (NMM) Non-Manual Markers are very important in American Sign Language. They consist of the various facial expressions and body movements that are added to signs to create meaning. Non-manual markers can be facial expressions, head shakes, head nods, head tilts, shoulder shrugs, etc. ASL NMS Facial Expression. Category Education; Show more Show less. Comments are disabled for this video. Autoplay When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Remember that you should always use the appropriate negative non-manual markers (eyebrows furrowed, negative head shake). Also remember that we can also negate a sentence in ASL by abruptly throwing the sign away from our body, i.e., WANT v DON?T-WANT, or just use negative non-manual markers with the verb and throughout the sentence. 4 MICHAEL et al.: RECOGNITION OF NON-MANUAL MARKERS IN SEGMENTED ASL. perform 3D hand reconstruction and then represent hand motions as 3D trajectories. Lately, we have even seen the emergence of some weakly supervised methods that attempt to learn manual signs from TV subtitles [3,5]. ASL 102 RHETORICAL QUESTIONS IN ASL. In ASL rhetorical questions are question formats in which both the "question" and the "answer" are provided by the signer. Rhetorical questions are used for emphasis to introduce new information and can show a causal relationship between two e