Information about ASL from official Boston University publications
- BU Bridge, January 2000:
- Signs of improvement: "Using a shared $1.3 million National Science Foundation grant, the BU and UPenn research teams have set up two facilities for the recording and analysis of signed data. The BU lab, in the basement of 111 Cummington St., features four synchronized digital cameras to register four distinct views of an ASL-speaking subject. Over the course of the next four years, investigators at both universities hope to log many hours of ASL data from native signers, establish a standard protocol for the gathering of such data, annotate it using a multimedia tool developed by Neidle and colleagues, and create computer algorithms for its analysis."
- Bostonia, Spring 2001:
- "Culture, by general definition, refers to customs and values shared by a group of people, usually from a particular geographic region. While deaf people don’t inhabit a shared land, they do share a language, have culture-specific social values, and live by their own customs and etiquette. Deaf literature is in ASL and is catalogued in video libraries; strong visual arts and theater arts communities exist..." READ MORE
- New Facility Will Aid in Understanding Sign Language and Human Movement
Other media coverage of ASL-related research at Boston University
- Chronicle of Higher Education (from the issue dated November 7, 1997): Linguists Hope a New Computer Program Will Advance the Study of Sign Language [link expires 6/1/04]
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