Questionnaire: Sign Language Corpora Survey 2012-01-16/ 1

Questionnaire

[Please, use one set of questions for one corpus. In case of different corpora, copy the questionnaire before you fill out the blank lines. If the requested information is part of a publication (available book, article, paper or document attached to your reply), just note a short citation and give a full reference at the end of the questionnaire (see “Reference/source/access”).]

Sign Language
[full name; acronym]

Title of project/corpus name

Research objectives
[e.g. sign language archive, general purpose corpus, language for special purposes (LSP), lexicography, grammatical or lexical variation (sociolinguistics), sign language acquisition,sign creation (neologism), syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology]

Period of data collection
[year, month]

Raw data
Length:
[hours, minutes; number of films]

Digitized:
[answer: yes/no/if partial, please quantify]

Accessibility:
[online, for other researchers (on personal apply), scheduled for …/in preparation]

Metadata
Kind of data:
[dialogue, monologue; elicited (lexical) data, elicited sentences, elicited narration (stimulus: e.g. picture story), pre-structured interviews, discussion, free conversation; genre, register]

Number of informants:

Age of informants:

Sign language proficiency:
[e.g. native signer, late learner, CODA, interpreter, hearing (L2-learner)]

Further informantion on sociolinguistic background of informants and data collection setting:
[answer: yes/no]

Primary data (lemmatization, annotation, transcription)
Lemmatized:
[yes/no]


Lemmatized on the basis of

[… a sign language dictionary (standard reference of this sign language) or a lexical database containing all the signs used in the transcripts of the project as unique entries which allows consistent token-type matching following the rule: same sign – same gloss or ID)]

Annotated:
[yes/no; kind of annotation, e.g. part of speech, grammatical aspects, phonological features, nonmanuals etc.]

Time-aligned to raw data:
[answer: yes/no]

Annotation tool:
[software]

Transcribed:
[answer: yes/no]

Transcribed with:
[notation system for sign languages]

Depth of transcription:

·  Notation of sign types (citation form): [answer: yes/no; if yes, please quantify]

·  Notation of tokens: dependent on type form (parameter(s) in which token deviates from citation form): [answer: yes/no; if yes, please quantify]

·  Notation of tokens: full notation of token form: [answer: yes/no; if yes, please quantify]

·  Notation of nonmanuals: [answer: yes/no; if yes, what kind of nonmanuals]

Amount of raw data lemmatized, annotated, and/or transcribed:
[hours, minutes or percentage; selective (occurrences/utterances) or continuous parts of signed texts?]

Reference/source/access
[published book, article, paper; project homepage, online resources]

Contact
Name:

E-mail:

[valid e-mail address]

Consent
I agree that the information given will be made publicly available online as part of the
“Sign Language Corpora Survey”:

[answer: yes/no]

Please send the questionnaire to Reiner Konrad ()

Thank You!