These guidelines explain and exemplify the annotations found in the Auslan Corpus. This is the first revision of these guidelines since November 2019. The main changes are: - Correction to text and expression throughout - Removal... more
These guidelines explain and exemplify the annotations found in the Auslan Corpus.
This is the first revision of these guidelines since November 2019. The main changes are:
- Correction to text and expression throughout
- Removal of repetition
- Replacement of almost all interlinear glossed examples with screen grabs from ELAN annotation files (eafs) of actual examples from the Auslan Corpus.
- Major rewriting of the sections on Secondary annotations, especially sections on clause level annotation and clause complexity annotation.
This thesis presents the results from a study of 27 native signing deaf children, filmed twice, between the ages of 4 and 10 years old, partipating in games eliciting depicting verbs (classifiers). A comparison is made between their... more
This thesis presents the results from a study of 27 native signing deaf children, filmed twice, between the ages of 4 and 10 years old, partipating in games eliciting depicting verbs (classifiers). A comparison is made between their development of depicting verbs, and the development of both linguistic and visual representation as described in the literature. The data show that these structures can be better analysed as visual representations, than as “purely” linguistic structures.
This study investigates the conventionalization of mouth actions in Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Signed languages were once thought of as simply manual languages because the hands produce the signs which individually and in groups... more
This study investigates the conventionalization of mouth actions in Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Signed languages were once thought of as simply manual languages because the hands produce the signs which individually and in groups are the symbolic units most easily equated with the words, phrases and clauses of spoken languages. However, it has long been acknowledged that non-manual activity, such as movements of the body, head and the face play a very important role. In this context, mouth actions that occur while communicating in signed languages have posed a number of questions for linguists; are the silent mouthings of spoken language words simply borrowings from the respective majority community spoken language(s); and are those mouth actions that are not silent mouthings of spoken words conventionalized linguistic units proper to each signed language, culturally linked semi-conventional gestural units shared by signers with members of the majority speaking community, or even gestures and expressions common to all humans? We use a corpus-based approach to gather evidence of the extent of the use of mouth actions in naturalistic Auslan—making comparisons with other signed languages where data is available—and the form/meaning pairings that these mouth actions instantiate.
