Sylvester and Tweety
Canary Row
(Freleng, 1950) is a cartoon by Warner Bros. studios featuring Tweety the bird and Sylvester the cat. The cartoon is used widely by sign language researchers to elicit classifier constructions. The cartoon is shown to one of the participants, who then should describe the story to their dialogue partner. As this task is used within a lot of corpora the data can be used for cross-linguistic research.
| Stimulus | Looney Tunes – Canary Row |
|---|---|
| Target | Data for cross-linguistic research |
| Degree of Interaction | Low (monologue) |
| Duration | 10–15 min |
| Source | Freleng (1950), available at https://archive.org/details/canary-row-1950-restored |
Task uses in corpora
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| Corpus | Auslan Corpus |
|---|---|
| Corpus Language | Auslan |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 196 |
| Data available |
https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_a93b67cc-7339-4f08-8f09-8648791d0c3d/?pg=1&hh_cmis_filter=imdi.topic/Canary Row cartoon 
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| Corpus | Catalan Sign Language Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Catalan Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 56 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available |
https://corpuslsc.iec.cat/en/narration-silvester-and-tweety/
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| Corpus | CORLSE |
| Corpus Language | Spanish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 98 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | https://corpuslse.es/corpus#b_start=40&c9=syp_codigo (Silvestre y Piolín) |
| Corpus | Corpus NGT |
| Corpus Language | Sign Language of the Netherlands |
| # recordings – open access | 46 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 7 |
| Data available |
https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0009-06F5-E
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| Corpus | DGS Corpus |
| Corpus Language | German Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 3 (each in 7 parts) |
| # recordings – restricted access | 81 |
| Data available |
https://meine-dgs.de/formats/format18_en.html
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| Corpus | Documentation and description of Inuit Sign Language |
| Corpus Language | Inuit Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 1 |
| Data available |
https://www.elararchive.org/uncategorized/SO_a3f5e074-566b-4d57-9928-393ab07062ff/
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| 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
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| Corpus | Japanese Sign Language Colloquial Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Japanese Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 40 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 0 |
| Data available |
http://research.nii.ac.jp/jsl-corpus/public/en/nara/anime/
http://research.nii.ac.jp/jsl-corpus/public/en/gumma/anime/
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| Corpus | Kata Kolok Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Kata Kolok |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 12 |
| Data available |
https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-CBFF-8
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| Corpus | PJM Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Polish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 64 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available |
https://www.korpuspjm.uw.edu.pl/en/videos?q=[[1,2,8,9],{}]
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| Corpus | VIDI Sign Space Corpus |
| Corpus Language | German Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 112 |
| Data available |
https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0000-C71E-8
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| Corpus | VIDI Sign Space Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Turkish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 109 |
| Data available |
https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0008-430C-6
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References
Primary references
- Friz Freleng (1950). "Canary Row". In: Merrie Melodies.
This entry was last modified on 10 February 2025.