The Sign Language Dataset Compendium


Data Collection Task

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://vimeo.com/317665278

Task uses in corpora

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
Corpus CORLSE
Corpus Language Spanish Sign Language
# recordings – open access 15
# recordings – restricted access not available
Data available https://corpuslse.es/busqueda_asociaciones_mapa.php?pagina=1&tarea=10 (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
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
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/
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 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/
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
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=[[1,2,8,9],{}]
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
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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This entry was last modified on 9 August 2022.