SASL Newsletter - Spring 2017 Issue Issue 5 - Spring 2017 | Page 12

While this sign is very different from the standard modern ASL sign for “picture,” it shares
contact with the face. If we examine other variants of modern ASL, we find signs that are similar in
different ways to the SMSD sign, such as the sign in Missouri (Shroyer & Shroyer, 1984).
Fig. 2: “Picture” (Missouri variant) (Shroyer & Shroyer, 1984, reprinted with permission)
A dialectal variant similar to ASL is also documented in the Canadian Dictionary of ASL (Bailey
& Dolby, 2002).
Fig. 3: “Picture” (Bailey & Dolby, 2002, p. 498, reprinted with permission)
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