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Val Forbes Date: Thu Feb 4, 1999 12:05 am Subject: Re: Auslan cd-rom | |
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Dear all, I may have misled some of you with my brief description of the Auslan dictionary on cd-rom. There aren't any videotapes separate from the cd-rom, but video sequences are included in the cd-rom itself. So, when you type in an English word, the resulting screen includes, in addition to written information about the sign, an animated "video" (my terminology might be wrong here!) of a person, not a cartoon, performing the sign. From this point you can view the sign again, and also in slow motion. So the more than 4000 video clips I referred to are incorporated right in the cd-rom itself. Another feature which I didn't mention was that it includes the usage of the signs around Australia - yes, there are Auslan dialects and regional variations! So you'll often see a few different signs for the same English concept, and a small map of Australia on the screen shows the states where a particular sign is used. Val Forbes Valerie Forbes Borchardt Library Humanities & Social Sciences Team Latrobe University Bundoora, Vic. Australia tel: (03) 9479-3826 TTY: (03) 9479-1803 fax: (03) 9471-0993 My web pages of recommended sites for: Cinema and Media Studies: https://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au:80/refsubj/CINEMEDI.HTM Deaf Studies: https://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au:80/refsubj/DEAFSTUD.HTM Languages & Cultures: https://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au:80/refsubj/EUROPE.HTM |
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