SignTyp Continuation: A cross-linguistic database of signs

该项目的主要目标是扩展当前的SignTyp数据库。SignTyp主要是对手语中单词的语音、音位和词法进行比较研究的工具。该数据库目前包含5种手语的手语，不包括句子结构。将选出15种分散在全球各地的手语(一些濒临灭绝，以前从未记录过)，并将其添加到数据库中。对于每种语言，将使用由图片、图画和视频剪辑组成的提示来收集1000个常见概念的符号。标志的录像带将在标志书写中转录(这将捕捉标志的视觉属性)，然后该转录将被转换为标志类型编码系统。每一份笔录都将附有英语和周围社区口语的注解。所有这些材料将结合起来，为每种语言创建小型在线可搜索词典。虽然手语研究人员将重点放在更具技术性的SignTyp编码系统上，该系统允许对数据库中所有语言内和跨所有语言的手语的语音、语音、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使用更易用的手语抄写、注释、视频和提示/图片定义来查找任何语言的手语。例如，将同一概念的符号在不同语言中进行比较将很容易。这个项目很重要，因为没有其他这种规模的跨语种手语数据库，它以一套共同的概念和提示材料为基础，有详细的语音和语音转录和编码，并可在网上免费获得和下载。

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.