Corpora: a corpus of sign language

[David Horowitz]

Ursala Bellugi is the definitive expert on Linguistics of Sign Language.
She is/was at the Salk Institute in California.  They probably have
annotated corpora, as she invented a method of annotating signs.  Check
her out.

David Horowitz
Chief Scientist
Vox Generation Ltd

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan I. Slobin [mailto:slobin at socrates.Berkeley.EDU]
Sent: 28 May 2002 20:42
To: przemka at amu.edu.pl; corpora at hd.uib.no
Subject: Re: Corpora: a corpus of sign language


As far as I know, there are no corpora of any sign language.  The
problem 
is, of course, that there is no standard transcription format.  There
are 
archives of videotapes in a number of places.  At the University of 
California at Berkeley we have developed a system for transcribing sign 
languages at the morphological level, and are working on data of
American 
Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands--early acquisition by

deaf children as well as second-language acquisition of sign by their 
hearing parents.  Eventually we will contribute these data to the 
international CHILDES archive of child language, but that will be
several 
years from now.  What is your student's interest in sign language?  The 
Berkeley Transcription System for signed languages (BTS) is available 
online at:
http://www.Colorado.EDU/slhs/btsweb/ .

Dan I. Slobin
Department of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley


At 09:25 PM 5/28/02, P. Kaszubski wrote:
>Dear Corporeans,
>
>A student of mine recently asked me whether I was aware of any
>corpora of sign language and I was baffled! Can you help?
>
>PK
>
>
>
>=======================================
>Dr Przemyslaw Kaszubski
>t: +48 61 8293515
>e: przemka at amu.edu.pl
>w: http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/staff/kaszubski.html
>
>(ENGLISH) LEARNER CORPORA PAGE:
>http://main.amu.edu.pl/~przemka
>
>PICLE Corpus online access:
>http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/depts/zajek/
>
>COMPREHENSIVE CORPORA BIBLIOGRAPHY:
>http://main.amu.edu.pl/~przemka/welcome.html#Corpbibl
>
>School of English
>Adam Mickiewicz University
>Al. Niepodleglosci 4
>61-874 Poznan
>t: +48 61 8293506
>f: +48 61 8523103
>w: http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa
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