A new project called Digging into Signs, a partnership between UCL and Radboud University Nijmegen aims to create clear standards for annotation of sign language corpus data in order to help make cross-linguistic corpus research possible. The project, led by PIs Kearsy Cormier and Onno Crasborn and running for one year from June 2014, will [...]
England's regional sign language dialects 'in decline' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27053639
England's regional sign language dialects 'in decline' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27053639
Hot off the press! New paper on lexical variation and change in BSL in PLOS ONE, by Rose Stamp, Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon, Ramas Rentelis, Bencie Woll & Kearsy Cormier Lexical Variation and Change in British Sign Language http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094053 Abstract This paper presents results from a corpus-based study investigating lexical variation in BSL. An earlier [...]
A new project based on the BSL Corpus Project data will begin in December 2012 on directional verbs: a corpus-based study of variation and change in the use of directional verbs in BSL, led by Kearsy Cormier (DCAL, UCL) and Adam Schembri (La Trobe University, Melbourne), working with Jordan Fenlon (DCAL, UCL). The project runs [...]
The BSL Corpus Project and DCAL respond to the Guardian article "Signs of the times: Deaf community minds its language" (8 October 2012): 8 October 2012 Dear Editor, We would like to thank The Guardian for recently covering our research, and issues relevant to the study of BSL, in the article Signs of the times: [...]
The BSL Corpus Project and DCAL respond to the Guardian article "Signs of the times: Deaf community minds its language" (8 October 2012): 8 October 2012 Dear Editor, We would like to thank The Guardian for recently covering our research, and issues relevant to the study of BSL, in the article Signs of the times: [...]
The BSL Corpus Project final report to the Economic and Social Research Council is now available. The final report provides a project overview, summarises the methodology and major findings, and early and anticipated impacts within academia and the community.
The BSL Corpus Project (Jan 2008 - June 2011) would not have been possible without the BSLCP team or the BSLCP participants. Thank you!!
Starting in January 2011, Dr. Adam Schembri has taken up a new post as the Director of the National Institute for Deaf Studies at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia. The team wishes him the best of luck! Adam will stay on as a Co-Investigator on the project and so will continue to be involved. Kearsy [...]