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Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Ella Wehrmeyer
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 108] 2023
► pp. 242–261

Chapter 9
Creating a multifaceted corpus of Swedish Sign Language

Visual, tactile, and L2 signing

 | Stockholm University
This chapter discusses the preparatory work of creating a collection of corpora, together functioning as a multifaceted corpus of the same sign language, across three data subsets of signing in different modalities and on different learning levels, namely visual signing (deaf/hard-of-hearing/CODA), tactile signing (deafblind), and L2 signing (hearing second-language learners). This work, led by native signers and based on personal experiences in the research field, involved planning and adapting data collection and annotation of the Swedish Sign Language corpora over time to ensure a corpus infrastructure that is uniform across data sets, compatible with a parallel lexical database, and available as a searchable resource for the public.
Keywords: visual signing, tactile signing, L2 signing, Swedish Sign Language corpora
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The STS corpus of visual signing
  • 3.The STS corpus of tactile signing
  • 4.The Parallel Corpus of Tactile Norwegian Sign Language and Tactile Swedish Sign Language
  • 5.The STS corpus of L2 signing
  • 6.Corpus design for the multifaceted STS corpus collection
  • 7.Annotation conventions for the STS corpora collection
  • 8.Annotation types specific for the different types of corpora
  • 9.Corpus-based findings from the STS corpora collection
  • 10.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 3 April 2023
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