Sign language lexicography

McKee, Rachel; Vale, Mireille

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“…Although SL dictionaries are one of the least-resourced language dictionaries (Prinsloo, 2012), certain modality-specific problems in the lexicography of SL have been rapidly solved thanks to the digital transformation of recent years (see : Zwitserlood, 2010;Mckee & Vale, 2017). Thus, multimedia SL dictionaries can serve both L1 and L2 sign language users.…”

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A Lexicological Approach to Look-up Frequency of Turkish Sign Language Dictionary Users

Önal

Makaroğlu

2021

Dil Eğitimi Ve Araştırmaları Dergisi

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From a lexicography perspective, the phenomenon of dictionary lookup frequencies can answer many critical questions on the dictionary users' needs and the relationship between corpus data and look-up tendencies. Although numerous studies have been carried out on the theoretical and functional aspects of look-up frequencies in the field of spoken language to date, there are relatively a few attempts to describe the characteristics of look-up behaviors in sign languages. This paper investigates the relationship between the objective frequency list of the Turkish Sign Language Corpus (Makaroğlu, 2021) and The Contemporary Turkish Sign Language Dictionary (Makaroğlu & Dikyuva, 2017) look-up occurrences. Using an approach to compare corpus data and log files, the results demonstrate that there are very limited similarities between the two and that there is no positive relationship for the percentage of the highest ranked items. In addition, the current study concludes that the corpus-based objective frequency list is a comparatively poor predictor of the dictionary look-up frequency and this difference could be direct result of the morphological structure of the words/signs in TİD (rather simultaneous realization) compared to Turkish (rather agglutinative morphology).

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A Lexicological Approach to Look-up Frequency of Turkish Sign Language Dictionary Users

Önal

Makaroğlu

2021

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Recent lexical expansion in New Zealand Sign Language: context, scope and mechanisms

McKee

Vale

2023

Current Issues in Language Planning

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Sign language lexicography: a case study of an online dictionary

Vlášková

Strachoňová

2021

SLO2.0

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As a growing field of study within sign language linguistics, sign language lexicography faces many challenges that have already been answered for audio-oral language material. In this paper, we present some of these challenges and methods developed to help navigate the complex lexical classification field. The described methods and strategies are implemented in the first Czech sign language (ČZJ) online dictionary, a part of the platform Dictio, developed at Masaryk University in Brno. We cover the topic of lemmatisation and how to decide what constitutes a lexeme in sign language. We introduce four types of expressions that qualify for a dictionary entry: a simple lexeme, a compound, a derivative, and a set phrase. We address the question of the place of classifier constructions and shape and size specifiers in a dictionary, given their peculiar semantic status. We maintain the standard classification of classifiers (whole entity and holding classifiers) and size and shape specifiers (SASSes; static and tracing specifiers). We provide arguments for separating the category of specifiers from the category of classifiers. We discuss the proper treatment of mouthings and mouth gestures concerning citation forms, derivation and translation. We show why it is difficult in sign language to distinguish synonyms from variants and how our proposed phonological criteria can help. We explain how to construct a semantic definition in a sign language and what is the solution for multiple meanings of one form. We offer simple guidelines for forming proper examples of use in a sign language. And finally, we briefly comment on the process of the translation between sign and spoken languages. We conclude the paper with a summary of roles that Dictio plays in the ČZJ-signing community.

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Sign language lexicography

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A Lexicological Approach to Look-up Frequency of Turkish Sign Language Dictionary Users

A Lexicological Approach to Look-up Frequency of Turkish Sign Language Dictionary Users

Recent lexical expansion in New Zealand Sign Language: context, scope and mechanisms

Sign language lexicography: a case study of an online dictionary

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