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Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Journal Title: Sign Language and Linguistics Volume Number: 4 Issue Number: 1/2 Issue Date: 2002 Subtitle: Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information. Special issue of Sign Language and Linguistics 4:1/2 (2001). Main text: Table of Contents Editor's Notepad 1 - 2 Guest Editors' Preface Brita Bergman, Penny Boyes-Braem, Thomas Hanke and Elena Pizzuto 3 - 7 Articles Section I: Some reflections on the need for a common sign notation Christopher Miller 11 - 28 The notation of signed texts: Open questions and indications for further research Elena Pizzuto and Paola Pietrandrea 29 - 45 Encoding and capturing productive morphology Mary Brennan 47 - 62 Sign language transcription at the level of meaning components: The Berkeley Transcription System (BTS) Dan I. Slobin, Nini Hoiting, Michelle Anthony, Yael Biederman, Marlon Kuntze, Reyna Lindert, Jennie Pyers, Helen Thumann and Amy Weinberg 63 - 104 Section II: The development of a FileMaker Pro database for the morphemic analysis of productive forms in BSL Ernst Daniel Thoutenhoofd 107 - 123 The database system used in the Finnish Sign Language Dictionary Project Leena Savolainen 125 - 132 A multimedia bilingual database for the lexicon of Swiss German Sign Language Penny Boyes-Braem 133 - 143 The lexical database of Auslan (Australian Sign Language) Trevor Johnston 145 - 169 GlossLexer: A multimedia lexical database for sign language dictionary compilation Thomas Hanke, Reiner Konrad and Arvid Schwarz 171 - 189 The Klagenfurt database for sign language lexicons Klaudia Krammer, Elisabeth Bergmeister, Franz Dotter, Marlene Hilzensauer, Ingeborg Okorn, Reinhold Orter and Andrea Skant 191 - 201 SignStream(TM): A database tool for research on visual-gestural language Carol Neidle 203 - 214 SignPhon: A phonological database for sign languages Onno Crasborn, Harry Hulst and Els van der Kooij 215 - 228 Spatial and temporal coding of Nicaraguan Sign Language in MediaTagger: Documenting three dimensions with a two-dimensional tool Ann Senghas 229 - 240 Sign language text transcription and analyses using 'Microsoft Excel' Penny Boyes-Braem 241 - 250 Section III: Developing linguistic specifications for a sign language database: The development of Signbase Trude Schermer, David Brien and Mary Brennan 253 - 274 Sign language transcription with syncWRITER Thomas Hanke 275 - 283 Making historical sign language materials accessible: A prototype database of early ASL Ted Supalla 285 - 297 Comparison of major software features Petra Eccarius 299 - 300 Content index (alphabetical) Ronnie B. Wilbur 301 - 302 Lingfield(s): General LinguisticsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue