Big Things Often Have Small Beginnings: A Review on the Development, Use and Value of Small and Big Corpora for Flemish Sign Language Linguistic Research
In 1990, Vermeerbergen started the first larger-scale corpus study with (semi)spontaneous language data from adult signers on the morpho-syntactic aspects of Flemish Sign Language (VGT). After this, a number of lexicographic projects, including the collection of a 90-h corpus, led to the launch of t...
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| description | In 1990, Vermeerbergen started the first larger-scale corpus study with (semi)spontaneous language data from adult signers on the morpho-syntactic aspects of Flemish Sign Language (VGT). After this, a number of lexicographic projects, including the collection of a 90-h corpus, led to the launch of the first online bilingual Dutch/VGT—VGT/Dutch dictionary in 2004. Since then, researchers have developed several corpora of variable sizes, with the greatest realization being the VGT Corpus. The main focus of this chapter is twofold. On the one hand the run-up to, the development and the use of the VGT Corpus will be discussed, while on the other hand smaller specific research corpora will be highlighted such as the corpus on early parent-child interaction and the multifocal eye-tracking corpus. The current chapter will discuss the research and community value of the corpora and future directions. Finally, it will elaborate on the need for corpus research, the associated advantages and disadvantages, and the obstacles faced in smaller deaf communities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-243e0f5401f542b7a73599e8e67ce00d2022-12-22T04:04:13ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-01-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.779479779479Big Things Often Have Small Beginnings: A Review on the Development, Use and Value of Small and Big Corpora for Flemish Sign Language Linguistic ResearchBeatrijs Wille0Inez Beukeleers1Mieke Van Herreweghe2Myriam Vermeerbergen3Myriam Vermeerbergen4Department of Linguistics, Ghent University, Ghent, BelgiumDepartment of Linguistics, KU Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumDepartment of Linguistics, Ghent University, Ghent, BelgiumDepartment of Linguistics, KU Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumDepartment of Dutch and Afrikaans, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South AfricaIn 1990, Vermeerbergen started the first larger-scale corpus study with (semi)spontaneous language data from adult signers on the morpho-syntactic aspects of Flemish Sign Language (VGT). After this, a number of lexicographic projects, including the collection of a 90-h corpus, led to the launch of the first online bilingual Dutch/VGT—VGT/Dutch dictionary in 2004. Since then, researchers have developed several corpora of variable sizes, with the greatest realization being the VGT Corpus. The main focus of this chapter is twofold. On the one hand the run-up to, the development and the use of the VGT Corpus will be discussed, while on the other hand smaller specific research corpora will be highlighted such as the corpus on early parent-child interaction and the multifocal eye-tracking corpus. The current chapter will discuss the research and community value of the corpora and future directions. Finally, it will elaborate on the need for corpus research, the associated advantages and disadvantages, and the obstacles faced in smaller deaf communities.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.779479/fullFlemish Sign Languagecorpus linguisticsgrammarlexicographysociolinguisticsautomated sign language recognition |
| spellingShingle | Beatrijs Wille Inez Beukeleers Mieke Van Herreweghe Myriam Vermeerbergen Myriam Vermeerbergen Big Things Often Have Small Beginnings: A Review on the Development, Use and Value of Small and Big Corpora for Flemish Sign Language Linguistic Research Frontiers in Psychology Flemish Sign Language corpus linguistics grammar lexicography sociolinguistics automated sign language recognition |
| title | Big Things Often Have Small Beginnings: A Review on the Development, Use and Value of Small and Big Corpora for Flemish Sign Language Linguistic Research |
| title_full | Big Things Often Have Small Beginnings: A Review on the Development, Use and Value of Small and Big Corpora for Flemish Sign Language Linguistic Research |
| title_fullStr | Big Things Often Have Small Beginnings: A Review on the Development, Use and Value of Small and Big Corpora for Flemish Sign Language Linguistic Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Big Things Often Have Small Beginnings: A Review on the Development, Use and Value of Small and Big Corpora for Flemish Sign Language Linguistic Research |
| title_short | Big Things Often Have Small Beginnings: A Review on the Development, Use and Value of Small and Big Corpora for Flemish Sign Language Linguistic Research |
| title_sort | big things often have small beginnings a review on the development use and value of small and big corpora for flemish sign language linguistic research |
| topic | Flemish Sign Language corpus linguistics grammar lexicography sociolinguistics automated sign language recognition |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.779479/full |
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