Yolngu Sign Language Corpus
Description
This corpus is a collection of video recordings and ELAN annotations of elicited conversations in Yolngu Sign Language, an alternate sign language used in NT Australia. The data was collected by Anastasia Bauer within Collaborative Research (EUROCORES) EuroBABEL „Better Analyses Based on Endangered Languages“ Projekt „Village Sign“ (led by Ulrike Zeshan) in 2010 in two Aboriginal communinities: Mäpuru and Galiwinku, NT, Australia.
The copies contains 27 videos of elicited monologues (picture description) and spontaneous dialogues.
For more information about the corpus see: Bauer, Anastasia. 2014. The Use of Signing Space in a Shared Sign Language of Australia. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515470
Creators
- Bauer, Anastasia (ORCID)
Project Information
Project title: Endangered sign languages in village communities
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Grant ID: 135372766
Cite as
Bauer, Anastasia 2014. Yolngu Sign Language Corpus: An Alternate Aboriginal sign language of Northern Australia.. Data Center for the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.18716/dch/a.00000018
Archive Information
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18716/dch/a.00000018
Date of archiving: 2023-05-16
Size of archival package: 7.9 GB
Contact Name: Felix Rau (DCH) – info-dch@uni-koeln.de
Data formats
Video recordings: mpeg
Text: docx, pdf