ISL-LEX
ISL-LEX is an online representation of the lexical database of Israeli Sign Language. The online platform represents 961 signs in a visual network of phonological relations and offers search functions. Each sign is accompanied with a video, detailed phonological information, and frequency and iconicity ratings. The signs broadly relfect different stages of language acquisition. ISL-LEX is built for researchers, educators and students.
Signs were collected from the ISL Child Development Inventory project (see Novogrodsky and Meir (2020)) and the ISL Dictionary.
ISL-LEX is part of the SIGN-LEX interactive web-based platform (see Caselli et al. (2022)), also hosting ASL-LEX. The data can also be downloaded.
| Languages | Israeli Sign Language, English, Hebrew |
|---|---|
| Size | 961 signs |
| Linguistic Information | subjective frequency ratings from native signers, iconicity ratings from native and non-native signers, phonological properties in six domains (articulator, handshape, orientation, location, core articulatory movement, manner of movement) |
| Licence | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
| Access | Public access via browsable homepage |
| Webpages |
Landing page: https://sites.google.com/view/isl-lex
Interface: https://asl-lex.github.io/isl-lex/index.html Raw data: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/JMWYX |
| Institution | University of Haifa in Israel |
| Publications |
Morgan et al. (2022)
Novogrodsky and Meir (2020) Morgan et al. () |
Cite as
See: https://sites.google.com/view/isl-lex/citing-permissions?authuser=0
Articles mentioned above
- Hope E. Morgan, Wendy Sandler, Rama Novogrodsky. "Phonological coding in a lexical database of Israeli Sign Language, ISL-LEX v.1".
- Hope E. Morgan, Wendy Sandler, Rose Stamp, Rama Novogrodsky (2022). "ISL-LEX v.1: An Online Lexical Resource of Israeli Sign Language". In: Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources (Marseille, France). Ed. by Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, Julie A. Hochgesang, Jette Kristoffersen, Johanna Mesch, Marc Schulder. Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 148-153. ISBN: 979-10-95546-86-3. ACL: 2022.signlang-1.23.
- Naomi K. Caselli, Z. Sevcikova Sehyr, A. M. Cohen-Goldberg, Karen Emmorey, S. Pandit, X. Cao, M. Fantes, J. Simeon (2022). "SIGN-LEX: Interactive visualizations for sign language lexicons".
- Rama Novogrodsky, Natalia Meir (2020). "Age, frequency, and iconicity in early sign language acquisition: Evidence from the Israeli Sign Language MacArthur–Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory". In: Applied Psycholinguistics 41(4), pp. 817-845. ISSN: 0142-7164, 1469-1817. DOI: 10.1017/s0142716420000247.
This entry was last modified on 11 January 2023.