Pear Story
The Pear Story
(Chafe, 1980) is a widely used task to elicit language data. The Story was created for spoken languages first but soon adopted to elicit sign language data. It is a language-free six-minute film made at the University of California at Berkeley that is shown to participants, who should describe what happens in the movie. The collected data can be used for cross-linguistic research, as it is a common elicitation task within linguistics.
| Stimulus | Pear story |
|---|---|
| Target | Data for cross-linguistic research |
| Degree of Interaction | Low (monologue) |
| Duration | 5–10 min |
| Source | Chafe (1980), available at http://chafe.faculty.linguistics.ucsb.edu/pearfilm.htm |
Task uses in corpora
| Corpus | CORLSE |
|---|---|
| Corpus Language | Spanish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 2 |
| # recordings – restricted access | not available |
| Data available | https://corpuslse.es/busqueda_asociaciones_mapa.php?pagina=1&tarea=14 (Historia de la pera) |
| Corpus | DGS Corpus |
| Corpus Language | German Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 1 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 82 |
| Data available | https://meine-dgs.de/formats/format5_en.html |
| Corpus | PJM Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Polish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 71 |
| # recordings – restricted access | not available |
| Data available | https://www.korpuspjm.uw.edu.pl/en/videos?q=[[1,2,5,7],{}] |
| Corpus | Signs of Ireland |
| Corpus Language | Irish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | not available |
| Data available | none |
| Corpus | ZEI Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Iranian Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 18 |
| Data available | https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_b66f9eac-c64a-4cb1-b750-050dcde5701c/?&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.topic/The pear story |
Articles mentioned above
- Wallace L. Chafe ed. (1980). "The Pear Stories: Cognitive, Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Production". 327 pp. ISBN: 978-0-89391-032-7.
This entry was last modified on 29 July 2021.