sign databases

[Ronnie Wilbur]

Until I saw James' heads up about his paper with Jill, I wasn't really thinking
about what might be available - I have been scouring the house for almost 2
hours looking to see if I still have the printout of the handshape
frequencies,  etc. from the program Mark describes in his paper (on his web
site) - If it turns up, I'll let you know and make copies available.

Meanwhile, some frequency characteristics of the DASL and a vocabulary used
with AAC (Alternative and augmentative communication) are included in:

Shane, H. C. & Wilbur, R. B. (1980) Potential for expressive signing based on
motor control. Sign Language Studies 29: 331-347.

You can scan in the tables.

Ronnie



At 02:30 PM 08/06/2002 , you wrote:

>
> Hi Rachel,
>
> Jill Morford and I have an article entitled "Frequency Characteristics of
> American Sign Language" forthcoming in the Winter 2003 issue of Sign Language
> Studies.  This paper reports the findings of a pilot study of sign frequency
> in American Sign Language.  A corpus of over 4000 signs was analyzed, and
> some of the frequency characteristics that were uncovered are reported here.
> A list of the most frequent signs in the database is included in the
> appendix.  We did code for some phonological or phonetic information such as
> starting and ending handshape on both dominant and non-dominant hands and we
> coded for place of articulation.  We did not report on those in the paper
> though.
>
> Congratulations on the completion of your dissertation!  I'm still plugging
> away.
>>
>> --
>> James MacFarlane
>> University of New Mexico
>> Department of Linguistics
>> www.unm.edu/~jmacfarl/home.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have or know about any transcription of some or all of the
>> Stokoe Casterline and Croneberg ASL dictionary (DASL) into something that is
>> machine readable, so that one could get frequency counts of handshapes,
>> places, etc.?  Is anyone aware of any other phonetic or phonological sign
>> language database of any sign language?  I am aware of the SignPhon database
>> for SLN, but not of any other.
>> Rachel Channon
>> University of Maryland Linguistics Department
>> rchannon at speakeasy.net
>>
>
>
>
> Ronnie Wilbur, Ph.D.
> Professor and Chair, Linguistics
> Heavilon Hall
> Purdue University
> W. Lafayette, IN USA 47907-1353
> wilbur at omni.cc.purdue.edu
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