Sign Languages and the Online World Online Dictionaries & Lexicostatistics
Sign Languages and the Online World Online Dictionaries & Lexicostatistics
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手语和在线世界在线词典
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2018
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Natasha Abner
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Shi Yu;C. Geraci;Natasha Abner
现在有几个在线词典记录了各种符号语言（SLS）的词典。这些是比较研究的丰富资源，但是对于如何将这些资源用于研究目的的方法论问题必须解决。我们创建了一个基于Web的工具，用于注释标志的发音特征（握手，位置，运动和方向）。来自在线词典的视频可以嵌入工具中，为大规模理论上的手语注释提供了一种机制。注释以准备定量和定性分析的电子表格格式保存。在这里，我们在语言分析中提供了该工具实用性的概念证明。我们使用了SWADESH列表的SL适应（Woodward，2000），并将词典静态和系统发育方法应用于使用基于Web的工具编码的23个SLS样品；补充历史信息是从世界语言和其他在线资料的民族学中收集的。我们报告了四个亚洲SLS（中国，香港，台湾和日本SLS）的所有发音特征的比较，以及整个23种语言样本中的握手比较。对整个样本簇的所有亚洲SL共同分析，与样本中的欧洲，美国和巴西SLS分开，这是历史上预期的。在亚洲SL群集中，分析还表明，中文和香港SLS之间的边际相关性。
Several online dictionaries documenting the lexicon of a variety of sign languages (SLs) are now available. These are rich resources for comparative studies, but there are methodological issues that must be addressed regarding how these resources are used for research purposes. We created a web-based tool for annotating the articulatory features of signs (handshape, location, movement and orientation). Videos from online dictionaries may be embedded in the tool, providing a mechanism for large-scale theoretically-informed sign language annotation. Annotations are saved in a spreadsheet format ready for quantitative and qualitative analyses. Here, we provide proof of concept for the utility of this tool in linguistic analysis. We used the SL adaptation of the Swadesh list (Woodward, 2000) and applied lexicostatistic and phylogenetic methods to a sample of 23 SLs coded using the web-based tool; supplementary historic information was gathered from the Ethnologue of World Languages and other online sources. We report results from the comparison of all articulatory features for four Asian SLs (Chinese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese and Japanese SLs) and from the comparison of handshapes on the entire 23 language sample. Handshape analysis of the entire sample clusters all Asian SLs together, separated from the European, American, and Brazilian SLs in the sample, as historically expected. Within the Asian SL cluster, analyses also show, for example, marginal relatedness between Chinese and Hong Kong SLs.