Swedish Sign Language as second language corpus

Overview Description Data and documentation

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Johanna Mesch - Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Krister Schönström - Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Description

The Swedish Sign Language as second language corpus includes video recordings and documentation of sign language texts, produced by adult hearing second language learners of Swedish Sign Language.

Subject area

MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Humanities and the Arts, Languages and Literature (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

sign language, second language acquisition, swedish sign language, swedish sign language as second language

Principal organisation

Stockholm University

Accessibility status

Access to data through an external actor
Data are accessible by order

Homepage

Corpus of Swedish Sign Language as a second language

Responsible department/unit

Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Johanna Mesch - Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Krister Schönström - Stockholm University, Department of Linguistics

Identifiers

SND-ID: 2020-35

Description

The Swedish Sign Language as second language corpus includes video recordings and documentation of sign language texts, produced by adult hearing second language learners of Swedish Sign Language.

Time period(s) investigated

2013-09-24 — 2018-05-24

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Sampling procedure

During 2013-2018, 38 hearing second language signers aged between 18 and 42 were recorded, with whom all were university students studying Swedish Sign Language. The recordings consist of a number of conversations based on interviews of varying levels and retellings of “Frog, where are you?” some comic strips and a clip from the short movie "The Plank". In addition, the corpus also consists of data from 9 deaf first language signers serving as control group data.

Data contains personal data

Yes

Ethics Review

Stockholm — Ref. 2013/1219-31/5

Funding

Funding agency: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation

Funding agency’s reference number: In2008-0276-1-IK

Subject area

MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Humanities and the Arts, Languages and Literature (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

sign language, second language acquisition, swedish sign language, swedish sign language as second language

Language resources

Resource type

Corpus

Foreseen use

NLP application

Video corpus

Linguality
Monolingual
Language
- Swedish Sign Language (swl)
  
  Svenskt teckenspråk som andraspråk för hörande vuxna (other)
Modality
Sign Language
Size

Hours: 23:21
Naturality
Prompted
Conversational type
Dialogue
Subtitles or captions
Subtitles
Description of video content
Intervju, elicitering med hjälp av bilder och rörliga bilder
Recording environment
Studio
Recording software
.mp4

Contacts for questions about the data

Johanna Mesch

Krister Schönström

Associated documentation

Korpus L2 bakgrund ANDRA RUNDA160908.pdf

Mesch_Schönström 2018.pdf

Projektbrev till informanter_v3_JM_130924.pdf

Tillstånd L2_130913.pdf

Uppläggning för L2 inspelning uppdaterad 200921.pdf

Etiska ansökan godkänd Korpus tsp L2 130912.pdf

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Schönström, K., & Mesch, J. (2014). Use of nonmanuals by adult L2 signers in Swedish Sign Language – Annotating the nonmanuals. 6th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages : Beyond the Manual Channel, 153–156. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-107008
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-107008

Mesch, J., & Schönström, K. (2018). From Design and Collection to Annotation of a Learner Corpus of Sign Language. 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Involving the Language Community : Proceedings, 121–126. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157148
ISBN: 979-10-95546-01-6
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157148

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