Frog Story
Frog, Where Are You?
(Mayer, 1969) is a picture book with no written language in it and is due to its parallel happening actions a popular task to elicit language data. Originally used in spoken language studies it was soon adopted by sign language researchers. The participants are given the book, or a digital version of the book is presented to them and they should retell the story to their dialogue partners. Due to its popularity this task collects data which can be used for cross-linguistic research.
| Stimulus | Frog, where are you? |
|---|---|
| Target | Data for cross-linguistic research |
| Degree of Interaction | Low (monologue) |
| Duration | 5–10 min |
| Source | Mayer (1969), available at https://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Institute/Allgemeine_Sprachwissenschaft/Frogstory-2_01.pdf |
Task uses in corpora
| Corpus | Auslan Corpus |
|---|---|
| Corpus Language | Auslan |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 51 |
| Data available | https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_a93b67cc-7339-4f08-8f09-8648791d0c3d/?pg=1&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.topic/Frog Where Are You |
| Corpus | Australian Irish Sign Language |
| Corpus Language | Australian Irish Sign Language |
| # 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 |
| Corpus | CORLSE |
| Corpus Language | Spanish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 17 |
| # recordings – restricted access | not available |
| Data available | https://corpuslse.es/busqueda_asociaciones_mapa.php?pagina=1&tarea=5 (Rana, ¿dónde estás?) |
| Corpus | Corpus LSFB |
| Corpus Language | French Belgian Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 22 |
| Data available | none |
| Corpus | Corpus NGT |
| Corpus Language | Sign Language of the Netherlands |
| # recordings – open access | 42 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 1 |
| Data available | https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-06F9-3 |
| Corpus | Corpus of Finnish Sign Language |
| Corpus Languages | Finnish Sign Language , Finland-Swedish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | not available |
| Data available | none |
| Corpus | Corpus Vlaamse Gebarentaal |
| Corpus Language | Flemish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 37 |
| # 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=10 (Kikker, waar ben je?) |
| Corpus | DGS Corpus |
| Corpus Language | German Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 1 (in 6 parts) |
| # recordings – restricted access | 81 |
| Data available | https://meine-dgs.de/formats/format9_en.html |
| Corpus | Hong Kong Sign Language Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Hong Kong Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 6 |
| Data available | http://www.cslds.org/hkslcorpus/browsearchive.jsp |
| Corpus | PJM Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Polish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 64 |
| # recordings – restricted access | not available |
| Data available | https://www.korpuspjm.uw.edu.pl/en/videos?q=[[1,10,11,12],{}] |
| Corpus | SIGNOR Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Slovene Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | not available |
| Data available | none |
| Corpus | Signs of Ireland |
| Corpus Language | Irish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | not available |
| Data available | none |
| Corpus | Swedish Sign Language corpus |
| Corpus Language | Swedish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 23 |
| # recordings – restricted access | not available |
| Data available | https://ling33.ling.su.se/sslc/video/ (Var är du, grodan?) |
| Corpus | VIDI Sign Space Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Turkish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 7 |
| Data available | https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-42CA-0 |
Articles mentioned above
- Mercer Mayer (1969). "Frog, Where Are You?". 32 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8037-2881-3.
This entry was last modified on 29 July 2021.