[lg policy] New York Times: Sign language researchers broaden science lexicon

[Sarah Compton]

Here's a link to an article in the New York Times on corpus planning for scientific terms in sign languages.  The article draws attention to, among other things, the use of crowd sourcing in language planning: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/science/sign-language-researchers-broaden-science-lexicon.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121204&_r=0



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Sarah Compton

Doctoral Student

Department of Languages

P.O. Box 35

40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Phone: +358.40.8053183

E-mail: sarah.e.compton at jyu.fi

www.peripheralmultilingualism.fi 


 		 	   		  
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