Mouth Movement
Mouth movement is a part of facial grammar in sign language. It conveys an adjective, adverb, or another descriptive meaning in association with an ASL word.
General meanings
| Mouth Movement | Meanings |
| CHA | very big, very large, gigantic, colossal, very tall. |
| long-TH and short-TH | melting (eg. snow, ice, chocolate, decreasing-contact), nothing, sticky (glue), sloppy, careless. | "cheek-puff" | fluffy, chubby, hold back laughter, short-and-sweet "cute". |
Examples
Below shows some examples of mouthing that represents a size of a book. Facial grammar is integrated with a classifier (a handshape that represents a group of objects).
A number of the pages of a book is average.
A book is thick in pages. Notice a different handshape from the previous one.
The length of pages of a book is short.