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The impact in the German educational system for the deaf also directly affected language use. To investigate this, the DGS Corpus project made sure to include signers of all ages (and regions). This allows us to look into how factors such as vocabulary, signing speed and mixing of LBG (signed German, i.e. word for word translations that loan only signs from DGS but not most grammar) have changed over time and as educational conditions changed.
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The city of Hamburg has officially apologised for the suffering that the German educational system has caused deaf people. Up until the 1990s, use of sign language was systematically suppressed, in the misguided assumption that this would help deaf people focus on learning to lip read and speak German. Instead, this language deprivation, for a long while coupled with corporeal punishment for underperforming, resulted in dismal school experiences for many deaf people as well as low educational levels, leading to severely limited career options.
The reaction of the Hamburg city and federal state government follows years of campaigning by victims to have their plight acknowledged. Hamburg has now vowed to push for recognition and reparations at the national level.

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Edit: typo

German news article: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/buergerschaft-leid-von-gehoerlosen-soll-anerkannt-werden,gehoerlose-100.html

Paper time! Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) are words that only occur in negated statements. They are assumed to exist in every language, but examples in #SignLanguages are still rare. @CorneliaLoos and I wanted to see whether we could find some for #GermanSignLanguage, so we combined her linguistic and my computational skills to comb the #DGSCorpus for NPIs. Did we find them? *drumroll* Yeahmaybekinda, but not the ones we expected!
Preprint at https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.12562

Time for a re-#introduction:

I am a researcher in #SignLanguage #Lingustics. I work at the #DGSCorpus project at #UniversitätHamburg, creators of the largest discourse corpus of #GermanSignLanguage. My background is in #ComputationalLinguistics (aka #NLP) and currently I focus a lot on #ResearchDataManagement and ethical #OpenScience for sign language data.
I program mostly in #Python and enjoy tinkering with #LaTeX.
I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett's #Discworld. And of #cats. Cats are nice ❤️