1st L (F–10) F-2
Understanding

Systems of Language  - Elaboration 2

- realising that meaning is communicated through the use of signs, pictures, written or spoken words or miming

- describing the range of signing space in normal signed discourse

- noticing that single-digit numbers can be separate lexical items or merged into other signs (numeral incorporation) such as those for ages (for example, 5-YEARS-OLD) or adverbs of time (for example, 3-WEEKS-AGO) or pronouns (WE3, WE4)

- noticing that Auslan pronouns are different from English ones because they don’t show gender but they can show location and a specific number of referents, for example, WE2 (inclusive) and WE3 (inclusive) or WE2-NOT-INCLUDING-YOU (exclusive)

- noticing that enacting a role or modifying the beginning and end locations of some verbs can show the referents involved, for example:

PRO1 ASK PRO3 versus PRO1 ASK-her
PRO3 ASK-me CA:I-was-shocked
(* Auslan video example on this is in the ACARA website)

- identifying what sort of things can be represented in a DS by a particular handshape, for example a distant person, pole or tree can be represented by a point handshape, and a cylinder can be traced by a C handshape