Countries
Choose a country on the left, and you will see the range
of BSL sign variants (also frequencies and regional distributions) for that country
produced in the “What’s your sign?” task from the BSL Corpus. In this task, 249
Deaf BSL signers (30 each in Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester
& Newcastle, 32 in Bristol & 37 in London) were asked their signs for
102 various concepts, including some numbers, colours, countries, UK place
names, and range of other concepts which were known show a wide range of regional
variation in BSL. |