Mini-lecture: The truth about sign language (UCL)

People outside the deaf community may not know that the regional variations found in spoken language also exist in sign language. This variation is the subject of the current BSL Corpus Project, led by the team at UCL's Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL). Dr Adam Schembri, Senior Research Fellow and Project Director, explains what this research is telling us about the history of a language that, like every other, is continually changing.

www.bslcorpusproject.org
www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk

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Education

Tags:

• deaf
• british sign language
• BSL Corpus Project
• BSL grammar

[xxpowwowbluexx]

@signlady29 No offense intended, but if you let your happiness be contingent upon YouTube users' comments you will never be happy. Peace.

[xxpowwowbluexx]

The background for the captions would be a lot less distracting if it stayed up and didn't blink on and off every few seconds.

[wizren320]

brilliant



[katheryncruz24]

It really make sense to me now. THanks!

[hopenchrist777]

@LylyCSM2 Just to let you know: Green in ASL is made with the letter 'G' waving back and forth from the side at sholder level. Very different than BSL in London. However, I enjoyed seeing the differences in ASL and BSL examples presented here. Have a great day! Peace.

[WaySide66]

Makes sense that their would be different dialects of every language. Not a very interesting video though.

[LylyCSM2]

Hah, the London numbering system is so much simpler than in ASL. Pretty cool to see that Green is the same in ASL and in London too.

[senantiasa]

WOW, that's kind of interesting, but that's also really sad. At least I thought deaf people would be able to speak to all other deaf people in the same country or spoken-language community, who are not many to start with. Imagine we have trouble understanding numbers or colors when visiting another city!! But then again, if you try to find the positive side of it, you can say that sign languages are rich. Language and cultural differences are a blessing giving beautiful colors to this world.

[razoodocks]

Fascinating, this series of mini lectures is a great idea.

[pleford]

Cool! Very interesting stuff, nice opener to sign language.