Some of the first results from the BSL Corpus Project have been published in the March 2010 issue of the 'British Deaf News', in an article by BSL Corpus Project PhD student Rose Stamp, Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon and BSL Corpus Project co-investigator Bencie Woll. If you'd like to read the article, you can download [...]
Some of the first results from the BSL Corpus Project have been published in the March 2010 issue of the 'British Deaf News', in an article by BSL Corpus Project PhD student Rose Stamp, Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon and BSL Corpus Project co-investigator Bencie Woll. If you'd like to read the article, you can download [...]
Phase 1 of data collection for the BSL Corpus Project is now complete! We have filmed an amazing 249 Deaf people from London, Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Belfast and Glasgow, which is a record number of participants recorded in a single sign language corpus project. Each of these participants were filmed telling personal experience stories, engaged [...]
A big thank you to Sarah Lawrence and Jordan who successfully filmed another 10 Deaf participants in Wales last week. The total number of people filmed for the BSL Corpus Project now stands at 247, which is 7 more than our original target of 240. Later this month, we will film the last 2 pairs [...]
A short article about the BSL Corpus Project, and a mini-lecture by Adam Schembri on sign language, appeared on the University College London webpage recently: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1001/10011803 .
We have now filmed 237 people across the UK, and are aiming for a final target of 250 participants. Jordan is currently working in Wales with our new Cardiff Deaf Community fieldworker, Sarah Lawrence, filming the last group of Welsh participants. Sarah has stepped up to take Jeff Brattan-Wilson's place as the local fieldworker - [...]
The BSL Corpus Project team been joined by a new DCAL Deaf intern - Breish Rowe. Breish is a psychology graduate from the University of Durham who has joined DCAL for one year. She'll be working on a number of DCAL projects, including the BSL Corpus Project. Welcome Breish! Jordan Fenlon, our project research associate, passed his PhD [...]
It's been a few months since the last update, but progress with the filming has been excellent: we have now filmed 214 Deaf people for the project. Thanks very much to Evelyn McFarland in Belfast and Jordan who finished filming in Belfast in September. Jordan also worked with Jeff Brattan-Wilson in Cardiff to film 20 [...]
It's been a few months since the last update, but progress with the filming has been excellent: we have now filmed 214 Deaf people for the project. Thanks very much to Evelyn McFarland in Belfast and Jordan who finished filming in Belfast in September. Jordan also worked with Jeff Brattan-Wilson in Cardiff to film 20 [...]
The team would like to welcome three new Deaf community fieldworkers to the BSL Corpus project: Belfast fieldworker Evelyn McFarland, Newcastle fieldworker Dawn Marshall and Greater London fieldworker Melinda Napier. Melinda Napier has replaced Hamish Cooke. The BSL Corpus team would like to thank Hamish for all his hard work. Kyra Pollitt has accepted the [...]