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Documentation and description of Inuit Sign Language

The Documentation and description of Inuit Sign Language Corpus is a collection of videos of deaf and hearing Inuit of Nunavut in Canada signing in Inuit Sign Language. The data was collected between 2009 and 2012 by Joke Schuit in the realm of her dissertation project.

The videos consist of unstructered interviews and elicitation tasks like picture drawings or cartoon clips. Recordings were done in private homes and a campus building.

Language Inuit Sign Language
Size 16,5 hours
Participants 7 participants
4 deaf, 3 hearing
40–65 years
5 male, 2 female
3 regions in Canada: Rankin Inlset, Baker Lake, Taloyoak
Metadata Format Dublin Core in .xls (Microsoft Excel) file, ELAR HTML
Translation English, 6,5 hours
Annotation 2 hours, containing data from all three communities and most of the elicitation tasks
Data Format ELAN
Licence not available
Access Restricted access requires confirmed registration
Webpages Resource: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/d007bcf2-4190-4d64-9069-76685a4ff9e6
Dataset: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0002-0214-8
Institution University of Amsterdam
Publications Schuit (2014)

Cite as

Schuit, Joke. 2010. Documentation and description of Inuit Sign Language. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0002-0214-8. Accessed on [insert date here].

Common tasks used in this corpus

Task Free conversation
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 11
Data available https://www.elararchive.org/index.php?name=SO_9c3cfc02-f7c0-4571-8e5e-5e5983ebd5a8&pg=1&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.genre/Conversation
Task Lexical elicitation
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 3
Data available https://www.elararchive.org/index.php?name=SO_a828ca24-1b3f-4c16-965c-dca12a3d5f4d&pg=1&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.genre/Vocabulary
Task Sylvester and Tweety
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 1
Data available https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_a3f5e074-566b-4d57-9928-393ab07062ff/
Task Volterra picture task
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 1
Data available https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_ee05bc23-e6ef-43fd-8600-7ef10c5cb530/
Task Zwitserlood Picture Task
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 1
Data available https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_461a710f-141b-432f-bfc8-e2c70a180236/

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This entry was last modified on 17 May 2023.