SignTyp Continuation: A cross-linguistic database of signs

SignTyp Continuation：跨语言符号数据库

• 批准号: 1049510
• 负责人: Hendrikus van der Hulst
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1049510&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SignTyp; Continuation; cross; linguistic; database

The primary goal of this project is to extend the current SignTyp database. SignTyp is primarily a research tool for the comparative study of the phonetics, phonology and morphology of words in sign languages. The database, which currently contains signs from 5 sign languages, does not cover sentence structure. Fifteen globally dispersed sign languages (some endangered and never documented before) will be selected and added to the database. For each language, 1000 signs for common concepts will be collected using prompts consisting of pictures, drawings, and videoclips. The videotapes of the signs will be transcribed in SignWriting (which will capture the visual properties of the signs) and this transcription will then be converted into the SignTyp coding system. Each transcription will be accompanied by glosses in both English and the spoken language of the surrounding community. All of these materials will be combined to create small on-line searchable dictionaries for each language. While sign language researchers will want to focus on the more technical SignTyp coding system which allows for unlimited aggregate queries on phonetic, phonological, morphological and semantic characteristics of signs within and across all the languages in the database, users of sign languages, sign language students, interpreters, teachers, and anyone with an interest in sign languages can look up a sign in any of the languages, using the more accessible SignWriting transcriptions, glosses, videos, and prompt/pictorial definitions. For example, it will be easy to compare the signs for the same concept in the different languages. This project is important because there are no other crosslinguistic sign language databases of this magnitude, based on a common set of concepts and prompt material, with detailed phonological and phonetic transcriptions and codings, and freely available on the web and as a download.

该项目的主要目标是扩展当前的SignTyp数据库。SignTyp主要是一个研究工具，用于比较研究手语中单词的语音，音韵和形态。该数据库目前包含5种手语的手语，但不包括句子结构。将选择15种分散在全球的手语（有些濒临灭绝，以前从未记录在案），并将其添加到数据库中。对于每种语言，1000个共同概念的符号将使用由图片，图画和视频剪辑组成的提示来收集。这些标志的录像带将被转录成SignWriting（这将捕捉标志的视觉特性），然后将转录转换成SignTyp编码系统。每个转录将伴随着英语和周围社区的口语注释。所有这些材料将结合起来，为每种语言创建小型在线搜索词典。虽然手语研究人员希望专注于技术性更强的SignTyp编码系统，该系统允许对数据库中所有语言内和跨所有语言的符号的语音，音韵，形态和语义特征进行无限制的聚合查询，但手语用户，手语学生，口译员，教师和任何对手语感兴趣的人都可以查找任何语言的符号，使用更易于访问的SignWriting translation，注释，视频和提示/图片定义。 例如，比较不同语言中相同概念的符号是很容易的。这个项目很重要，因为没有其他跨语言手语数据库如此庞大，基于一套共同的概念和提示材料，有详细的语音和音标转换和编码，可以在网上免费下载。