Australian Irish Sign Language
The Australian Irish Sign Language: a minority sign language within a larger sign language community
is a collection of AISLAustralian Irish Sign Language, a language in attrition from Australia.
The data was collected in the realm of the doctoral dissertation of Robert Adam in the late 1980s.
The corpus is connected to a lexical database comprising all lexical signs found in the conversational and elicited data.
| Language | Australian Irish Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Size | 20 hours or recording |
| Participants |
22 participants
12 female, 10 male Older than 60 years |
| Metadata Format | .txt, ELAR HTML |
| Translation | English, size unknown |
| Annotation | ID-glosses in English |
| Data Format | ELAN |
| Licence | information not available |
| Access | Restricted access requires confirmed registration |
| Webpages |
Resource: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/04a3d3ea-202a-4407-a5d2-9c302f05fd62 
Dataset: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000F-BF42-A
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| Institution | University College London |
| Publications | Robert E. J. (1990) |
Cite as
Adam, Robert. 2017. Australian Irish Sign Language: a minority sign language within a larger sign language community. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-000F-BF42-A. Accessed on [insert date here].
Common tasks used in this corpus
Hide/Show tasks
| Task | Frog Story |
|---|---|
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 2 |
| Data available |
https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_9c3cfc02-f7c0-4571-8e5e-5e5983ebd5a8/?pg=1&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.topic/Frog story
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| Task | Lexical elicitation |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 11 |
| Data available |
https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_9c3cfc02-f7c0-4571-8e5e-5e5983ebd5a8/?pg=1&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.topic/BSL corpus vocabulary|imdi.topic/Swadesh list
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| Task | Volterra picture task |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 6 |
| Data available |
https://www.elararchive.org/index.php?name=SO_9c3cfc02-f7c0-4571-8e5e-5e5983ebd5a8&pg=1&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.topic/Verb pictures
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References
Primary references
- Adam Robert E. J. (1990). "Unimodal bilingualism in the Deaf community: Language contact between two sign languages in Australia and the United Kingdom". Doctoral Dissertation. 1267 pp.
This entry was last modified on 11 April 2025.