Sign Language Acquisition, Annotation, Archiving and Sharing

 描述（申请人提供）：本项目的目标是制作完整的注释（transmitted）以前收集的纵向样本的发展美国手语（ASL）的学龄前聋儿童;分析这些数据在词汇，形态，句法水平，以提供基准的典型发展;并向研究人员、聋人教师、手语教师和手语社区提供每次会议的注释视频和语言分析。聋人通常主要使用手语;在美国，这是ASL。虽然英语知识也很重要，但由于其可访问性，ASL可能是第一和/或首选语言。因此，准确而详细的聋儿ASL发展数据是一个重要的资源。专业人士可以使用这些信息来评估各种情况下的语言发展，包括典型和非典型的。该项目需要双管齐下。一方面，将对现有的视频数据注释平台进行改进。特别是，为了使这个平台最适合手语语料库， 需要用于集成手语词典数据库的系统。另一方面，注释者将使用该系统来标准化和最终确定现有的部分完成的一套记录，其中包括聋人儿童与其聋人父母或其他对话者之间超过200小时的视频记录互动。这些数据将在语言结构的三个层次上进行分析。特别是，分析将集中在语言领域，这是已知的发展期间观察到的年龄范围。在进行这项分析时，该项目将揭示手语特有的语言发展路径，以及手语发展和口语发展相吻合的方式。最后，视频数据、注释和语言编码都将通过基于网络的存档系统提供。这是第一次将这样的资源与手语习得社区共享。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to produce complete annotations (transcriptions) of previously collected longitudinal samples of the development of American Sign Language (ASL) by preschool aged Deaf children; to analyze these data at the lexical, morphological, and syntactic levels to provide benchmarks of typical development; and to make both the annotated videos and linguistic analyses of each session available to researchers, teachers of the deaf, sign language teachers, and the sign language community. Deaf people are often primarily users of a sign language; in the US, this is ASL. While knowledge of English is also important, ASL may be the first and/or preferred language due to its accessibility. For this reason, accurate and detailed data on the development of ASL by Deaf children is an important resource. Professionals can use such information to assess language development in a variety of circumstances, both typical and atypical. The project requires two prongs of approach. On one side, improvements will be made to an existing platform for annotation of video data. In particular, to make this platform optimal for sign language corpora, a system for integrating a sign language lexicon database is required. On the other side, annotators will use this system to standardize and finalize an existing partially-completed set of transcripts covering over 200 hours of video-recorded interactions between Deaf children and their Deaf parents or other interlocutors. These data will be analyzed at three levels of linguisti structure. In particular, the analysis will focus on areas of language which are known to develop during the age range observed. In conducting this analysis, the project will reveal paths of language development that are particular to sign languages, as well as ways that sign language development and spoken language development coincide. In the end, the video data, annotations, and linguistic coding will all be made available using web-based archiving systems. This is the first time that such a resource will be shared with the sign language acquisition community.