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<p class=MsoNormal>The SignTyp project is pleased to announce that a new
version of the SignTyp database is now available at the Linguistics Data
Consortium web site, at <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/signtyp/downloads/">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/signtyp/downloads/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>A zipped file contains both database and documentation. It
is free to all researchers for non-commercial purposes. SignTyp is supported
by grant BCS0544944 from the National Science Foundation to Drs. Harry van der
Hulst and Rachel Channon at the University of Connecticut.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=normalnoindent><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>SignTyp is a prototype of a crosslinguistic database
containing phonetic-phonological encoding of signs in a variety of sign
languages, using datasets that had already been coded by various researchers.
Setting a goal comparable to, for example, CHILDES (MacWhinney 2000), SignTyp
provides a home for existing datasets from different linguists. A uniform
coding system has been developed which translates the varying coding systems.
The primary focus of this system is to notate form properties of sign that are
potentially distinctive or phonological, so that researchers can analyze these
potentially distinctive values, and determine which elements are actually
non-distinctive or phonetic and which are truly phonological. Multiple
languages also allow the determination of which characteristics are
cross-linguistically distinctive. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The database currently includes almost 12,000 signs in nine
different language sets, for six different sign languages, from four annotating
groups or individuals: ASL (3 different time periods), Sign Language of the
Netherlands, Korean Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language, New Zealand Sign
Language, and Finnish Sign language (two different time periods). We would like
to thank the individuals who provided us with these datasets: Daisuke Hara,
Lorna Rozelle and the SignPhon group (Harry van der Hulst, Onno Crasborn, Els
van der Kooij, Marja Blees and others – see <span style='color:#333333'>Crasborn,
van der Hulst and van der Kooij 2001</span>). The Hara and Rozelle data were
the datasets they used in their dissertations (Hara 2003 and Rozelle 2003), and
the SignPhon data was used for dissertations by Crasborn (2001) and van der
Kooij (2002). Rachel Channon provided the final ASL dataset based on the Long
(1918) ASL dictionary. The sign sets vary in what has been coded, with some
sets including more information than others. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=normalnoindentCxSpFirst><b><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=normalnoindentCxSpLast><b><span lang=EN-GB>References</span></b><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=bibliography><span style='color:#333333'>Crasborn, Onno, Harry van der
Hulst and Els van der Kooij. 2001. SignPhon: A phonological database for sign
languages. Sign Language and Linguistics 4: 1/2, pp. 215-228.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=bibliography>Crasborn, Onno. 2001. Phonetic Implementation of
Phonological Categories in Sign Language of the Netherlands. Doctoral
dissertation, Leiden University, The Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=bibliography>Hara, Daisuke. 2003. A Complexity-Based Approach to the
Syllable Formation in Sign Language. Doctoral dissertation, University of
Chicago.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=bibliography>Long, J. Schuyler. 1918. <i>The Sign Language: A Manual
of Signs</i>. Washington DC: Gallaudet College.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=bibliography>MacWhinney, Brian. 2000. The CHILDES project: Tools for analyzing
talk. Third Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=bibliography><span style='color:#333333'>Rozelle, Lorna. 2003. The
Structure of Sign Language Lexicons: Inventory and Distribution of Handshape
and Location. Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=bibliography>van der Hulst, Harry and Rachel Channon. 2008. Annual
Report to the National Science Foundation for grant 0544944.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=bibliography>van der Kooij, Els. 2002. Phonological Categories in Sign
Language of the Netherlands: The Role of Phonetic Implementation and Iconicity.
Doctoral dissertation, Leiden University, The Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Rachel Channon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>University of
Connecticut<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Department of
Linguistics, Unit 1145<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>337 Mansfield
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Storrs, CT
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