The Sign Language Dataset Compendium


Data Collection Task

Retelling of fables

One of the signers is presented to a fable and asked to retell it to the other signer. Commonly used fables are those by the Brothers Grimm or Aesop, e.g. The tortoise and the hare (Perry 226), The shepherd's boy and the wolf/The boy who cried wolf (Perry 210), The lion and the mouse (Perry 150), The two friends and the bear (Perry 65), The dog and his reflection (Perry 133).

Stimulus Fables
Target Data for cross-linguistic research
Degree of Interaction Low (monologue)
Duration 1–2 min
Source Available at https://aesopfables.com/

Task uses in corpora

Corpus Auslan Corpus
Corpus Language Auslan
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access 100
Data available https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_a93b67cc-7339-4f08-8f09-8648791d0c3d/?pg=1&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.topic/The Boy Who Cried Wolf|imdi.topic/The Hare and the Tortoise
Corpus Corpus NGT
Corpus Language Sign Language of the Netherlands
# recordings – open access 55
# recordings – restricted access 10
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-06F7-8
Corpus Corpus Vlaamse Gebarentaal
Corpus Language Flemish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 35 (tortoise and hare)
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available https://www.corpusvgt.be/nl/corpussearch?field_geslacht_v1_value=All&field_geslacht_v1_value_1=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value=All&field_leeftijd_v1_value_1=All&field_regio_v1_value=All&field_regio_v1_value_1=All&field_thema_tid=8 (Schildpad & haas)
Corpus ECHO Corpus
Corpus Language British Sign Language
# recordings – open access 10
# recordings – restricted access 0
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0001-4950-1
Corpus ECHO Corpus
Corpus Language Sign Language of the Netherlands
# recordings – open access 20
# recordings – restricted access 0
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0001-49C8-8
Corpus ECHO Corpus
Corpus Language Swedish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 10
# recordings – restricted access 0
Data available https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0001-4AD9-1
Corpus Signs of Ireland
Corpus Language Irish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 0
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available none

This entry was last modified on 8 April 2022.