Editing American Sign Language (section)

=== Sign production ===
Sign production can often vary according to location. Signers from the South tend to sign with more flow and ease. Native signers from New York have been reported as signing comparatively quicker and sharper. Sign production of native Californian signers has also been reported as being fast. Research on that phenomenon often concludes that the fast-paced production for signers from the coasts could be due to the fast-paced nature of living in large metropolitan areas. That conclusion also supports how the ease with which Southerners sign could be caused by the easygoing environment of the South in comparison to that of the coasts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/sociolinguisticvariationofasl.htm|title=Regional, Cultural, and Sociolinguistic Variation of ASL in the United States|last=Rogelio|first=Contreras|date=November 15, 2002|access-date=March 19, 2018|archive-date=January 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121051610/http://lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/sociolinguisticvariationofasl.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

Sign production can also vary depending on age and native language. For example, sign production of letters may vary in older signers. Slight differences in finger spelling production can be a signal of age. Additionally, signers who learned American Sign Language as a second language vary in production. For Deaf signers who learned a different sign language before learning American Sign Language, qualities of their native language may show in their ASL production. Some examples of that varied production include fingerspelling towards the body, instead of away from it, and signing certain movement from bottom to top, instead of top to bottom. Hearing people who learn American Sign Language also have noticeable differences in signing production. The most notable production difference of hearing people learning American Sign Language is their rhythm and arm posture.<ref>{{Citation|last=Gallaudet Department of Linguistics|title=Do sign languages have accents?|date=2017-09-16|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gli3akhYOSo| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/Gli3akhYOSo| archive-date=2021-10-30|access-date=2018-04-27}}{{cbignore}}</ref>