Request for help in videotaping sign languages

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
January 26, 2010

This is wonderful, Stefan. Thank you for your interest in the project...

Val ;-)

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On Jan 26, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:

> Hello Rachel,
>
> just want you to know that you are very welcome to contact me and to  
> inform me about the details. I can imagine that there is a good  
> chance to support you in this project.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Stefan ;-)
>
>
>
>
> Dr. Harry van der Hulst from the University of Connecticut and I are  
> writing
> a grant application for a project that will expand the current SignTyp
> crosslinguistic database (http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/signtyp/ 
> downloads/) and
> add SignWriting.  The goal is to create videotapes of signs of  
> different
> languages and SignWriting transcriptions of these videotapes. The  
> results of
> this work will be web-based dictionaries for each sign language as  
> well as a
> research database.  Each dictionary will include pictorial  
> descriptions of
> the concept, SignWriting transcriptions and glosses in both English  
> and the
> language spoken in the same area as the sign language, and records for
> SignTyp, the research database.  The project should therefore provide
> material which will be useful to deaf people, to students of the  
> language,
> and to researchers.
>
> We are looking for people who could find and videotape native  
> signers of
> various languages.  We would provide a word list (mostly as  
> pictures), and
> we would be able to pay something to you and to the person being  
> videotaped.
> If you are interested or would like more information, please email  
> me at
> rchannon at speakeasy.net.
>
> Rachel Channon
> University of Connecticut
> Department of Linguistics, Unit 1145
> 337 Mansfield Road
> Storrs, CT 06269-1145
>
>
>
>
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