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<font size=3>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.<br>
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Meanwhile, some frequency characteristics of the DASL and a vocabulary
used with AAC (Alternative and augmentative communication) are included
in:<br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>Shane, H. C. &
Wilbur, R. B. (1980) Potential for expressive signing based on motor
control. <i>Sign Language Studies</i> 29: 331-347.<br>
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</font><font size=3>You can scan in the tables.<br>
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Ronnie<br>
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At 02:30 PM 08/06/2002 , you wrote: <br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite>Hi Rachel,<br>
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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. <br>
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Congratulations on the completion of your dissertation! I'm still
plugging away.<br>
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James MacFarlane<br>
University of New Mexico<br>
Department of Linguistics<br>
<a href="http://www.unm.edu/~jmacfarl/home.html" eudora="autourl">www.unm.edu/~jmacfarl/home.html</a><br>
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<dd>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.
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<dd>Rachel Channon
<dd>University of Maryland Linguistics Department
<dd>rchannon@speakeasy.net<br>
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<div>Ronnie Wilbur, Ph.D.</div>
<div>Professor and Chair, Linguistics</div>
<div>Heavilon Hall</div>
<div>Purdue University</div>
<div>W. Lafayette, IN USA 47907-1353</div>
wilbur@omni.cc.purdue.edu
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