Narrative data collection

[Plaza]

Hi Adam, dear All,

We appreciate your initiative to promote the exchange among scholars
involved in corpus studies as expressed in your posting back in June
("creating a corpus").

Knut Weinmeister and I are collecting narratives of bilingually educated
deaf children in Germany. Our aim is to explore the bilingual
development in sign language and written language. More specifically, we
are interested in the development of linguistic devices used to create a
narrative structure as well as in the role of language contact phenomena
(cross-linguistic influence, language mixing, bilingual bootstrapping)
in this particular type of bilingual development.
We are eliciting the narratives on the basis of the famous Frog story as
this has been used in a broad cross-linguistic study of narrative
development. So far, however, we have only come across few publications
reporting on the results with respect to sign language development. We
also wonder whether other colleagues might be involved in similar
studies and would be happy to get in touch with them.

It would be great if we could further exchange on these topics and share
the available information.

Best regards,

Carolina Plaza Pust
J.W. Goethe Universit ʲ  Frankfurt
E-Mail: C.Plaza-Pust at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
and
Knut Weinmeister
Humboldt-Universit ʲ  zu Berlin
E-Mail:  Knut.Weinmeister at staff.hu-berlin.de