Figure 1.
Four regional lexical variants for the concept ‘America’ in BSL.
Figure 2.
Regional distribution of the BSL Corpus Project participants.
Table 1.
Participant characteristics.
Figure 3.
Example of the stimuli shown to participants.
Table 2.
Multiple logistic regression results for signs for colours, countries and numbers.
Table 3.
Multiple logistic regression results for signs for countries.
Table 4.
Multiple logistic regression results for signs for numbers.
Table 5.
Multiple logistic regression results for signs for colours.
Table 6.
Multiple logistic regression results for UK placenames.
Table 7.
Number of lexical variants per concept.
Figure 4.
Examples of variants for ‘China’ in BSL.
Figure 5.
Examples of sign variants for ‘India’ in BSL.
Figure 6.
Example of borrowed variant for ‘America’.
Figure 7.
Examples of the sign variants for the concept ‘Ireland’ in BSL.