Sign language - Sense Get our emails in your inbox Join over 87,000 others, and be part of the movement driving change for disabled people. Sign up now This page explains the basics of sign language, including how it works, who uses it and how to learn it. Find out more about Bri…

Proctor, H. (2025). The noun phrase in British Sign Language. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London). https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10218817/ Hodge, G., Winter, B., Schembri, A., & Cormier, K. (2025). BSL signers combine different semiotic strategies to negate c…

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Why is more work on the BSL Corpus needed? A modern linguistic corpus (e.g., the British National Corpus of English ) is large, representative, accessible, and importantly, machine-readable (i.e., can be searched by a computer). The dataset that we refer to as the “BSL Corpus” is…

The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus Project was a three and a half year project (initially running from January 1 2008 to December 31 2010, and then extended until June 31 2011) funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (grant RES-062-23-0825). The project was led by …

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Abstract Disturbed relatedness is a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD), and impaired social cognition or deficits in “mentalization” are hypothesized to underlie this feature. To date, only weak empirical evidence argues for impairment in the recognition of emo…

BSL for beginners is an online British Sign Language (BSL) course provide by Signature, the UK's leading awarding organisation in BSL. The course, an introduction to BSL and deaf awareness provides an immersive learning experience, with informal clips, receptive practice, short m…

Welcome to the British Sign Language Corpus Project The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus is a collection of video clips showing Deaf people using BSL, together with background information about the signers and written descriptions of the signing in ELAN. The video clips were co…

Use the BSL Corpus for research If you are a university student or a researcher who might be interested in carrying out your own research project using the BSL Corpus data, please get in touch with us at: bslcorpusproject@ucl.ac.uk . Volunteer The BSL Corpus team at DCAL is looki…

Welcome to the British Sign Language Corpus Project The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus is a collection of video clips showing Deaf people using BSL, together with background information about the signers and written descriptions of the signing in ELAN. The video clips were co…

Welcome to the British Sign Language Corpus Project The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus is a collection of video clips showing Deaf people using BSL, together with background information about the signers and written descriptions of the signing in ELAN. The video clips were co…