Signed Language Corpora

Julie A. Hochgesang is an associate professor of linguistics at Gallaudet University. She is a deaf* linguist who specializes in phonetics and phonology of signed languages, fieldwork, documentation, corpora of signed languages, and the ethics of working with signed language communities. Hochgesang also works towards making linguistics accessible to communities, especially ASL communities, sharing multimodal products via social media and digital repositories.

*white, sighted, hearing family, early signer, cisgender

Jordan Fenlon is a deaf linguist who completed his PhD at University College London in 2010, and went on to work as a postdoctoral researcher for the British Sign Language Corpus project, the first project of its kind in the United Kingdom. His research, which focuses on the sociolinguistics of signed languages using corpora, has been published in journals such as Language and Glossa. He has taught linguistics at University College London, Gallaudet University, University of Chicago, and Heriot-Watt University.