FYI: Website/Applied Ling, ASL Digital Video Data

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Take a few moments to visit the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (CAAL) Web site at www.aclacaal.org. Along with the Association's mandate and statutes you will find information on the CAAL Journal, links to relevant web sites, and news about the upcoming conference (in Edmonton, Canada). Why not become a member? You can register on-line! Hélène Knoerr ***************************************************************** Hélène Knoerr Secrétaire de l'ACLA/ CAAL Secretary Institut des langues secondes Université d'Ottawa 600 King Edward OTTAWA, Ontario K1H 7P7 hknoerr@uottawa.ca (613) 562-5800/ 3475 (613) 562-5126 (fax) http://www.aclacaal.org ***************************************************************** Hello, I would like to announce the availability of digital video data corresponding to the ASL constructions (as signed by native signers) discussed in two recent publications: Neidle, C., J. Kegl, D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, and R.G. Lee (2000) The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Bahan, B., J. Kegl, R.G. Lee, D. MacLaughlin, and C. Neidle (2000) The Licensing of Null Arguments in American Sign Language. Linguistic Inquiry 31:1, 1-27. These examples are now available at our Web site and on CD-ROM, along with other electronic documents and video data corresponding to many other publications of the American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project. See http://www.bu.edu/asllrp . Many of the examples just made available were collected in our new facility. For those sentences, multiple views of the signer are provided; in addition, these data are available in various video formats. For more information about the National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources, see http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/ncslgr.html . These projects have been supported, in part, by grants from the National Science Foundation. ====================================================================== Carol Neidle Boston University, MFLL carol@louis-xiv.bu.edu 718 Commonwealth Ave. http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/carol.html Boston, MA 02215 phone and fax: 617-353-6218