This $170,130 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports the creation of a large sign language corpus with annotations for studying visual prosody and its grammatical and emotional functions. The project, led by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), aims to develop methods for representing these understudied characteristics of sign languages in the corpus. The anticipated outcomes include: (1) the sign language corpus, (2) tested annotation approaches, (3) best practice guidelines, and (4) research dissemination. Additionally, the project plans to train students and increase the number of Deaf scientists with linguistic research skills, as well as release a learning module for researchers. The award runs from Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2026.
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