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ASL-LEX

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You can apply different filters in ASL-LEX to limit the results of the visualisation web. By applying different constraints, certain nodes will be greyed out if they do not match the criteria. Filter can be applied based upon the following properties:

Frequency Properties

Sign Frequency (M)	Mean subjective frequency rating for all participants (1 = very infrequent, 7 = very frequent)
Sign Frequency (SD)	Subjective frequency rating standard deviation (as rated by both native and non-native signers)
Sign Frequency (Z)	Standardized subjective frequency rating (z) (as rated by both native and non-native signers)
Sign Frequency (N)	Number of participants on which average frequency rating is based (both native and non-native signers)

Phonological Properties

Sign Type	Symmetry of the hands according to Battison's sign types
Selected Fingers	Fingers that are moving or foregrounded in the first morpheme of the sign; Thumb is ignored unless it is the only selected finger in the sign
Flexion	Aperture of the selected fingers of the dominant hand at sign onset
Major Location	General location of the dominant hand at sign onset
Minor Location	Specific location of the dominant hand at sign onset
Movement	Path movement of the first morpheme in the sign

Iconicity Properties

Iconicity (M)	Mean iconicity rating (as rated by hearing non-signers)
Iconicity (Z)	Standardized iconicity rating (z) (as rated by hearing non-signers)

Lexical Properties

Lexical Class	The sign's lexical class (Adjective, Adverb, Name, Noun, Number, Verb, and Minor: Preposition, Pronoun, Conjunction)
Compound	"1" indicates that the sign is a compound. Compounds are signs that include more than one free morpheme, and morpheme boundaries are often indicated by a change in selected fingers or major location.
Initialized	"1" indicates that the handshape of the sign is the first letter of the English translation
Fingerspelled Loan Sign	"1" indicates that the sign includes more than one letter of the manual alphabet

Sub-Lexical Frequency Properties

Sign Type Frequency	The count of other signs in which the sign type occurs
Major Location Frequency	The count of other signs in which the major location occurs
Selected Finger Frequency	The count of other signs in which the selected fingers occurs
Flexion Frequency	The count of other signs in which the flexion occurs
Movement Frequency	The count of other signs in which the movement occurs
Handshape Frequency	The count of other signs in which the combination of flexion and selected fingers occurs

Neighborhood Properties

Minimal Neighborhood Density	Number of signs that share one or more of five coded phonological properties (movement, flexion, selected fingers, major location, and sign type) with the sign
Parameter-Based Neighborhood Density	Number of signs that share all four of four phonological properties (movement, flexion, selected fingers, major location) with the sign
Maximal Neighborhood Density	Number of signs that share four or more of five coded phonological properties (movement, flexion, selected fingers, major location, and sign type) with the sign

EntryID	An English word that uniquely identifies each entry in the data set
LemmaID	An English word that uniquely identifies each lemma collapsing across phonological and inflectional variants

Sign Frequency

Sign Frequency (M)	Mean subjective frequency rating for all participants (1 = very infrequent, 7 = very frequent)
Sign Frequency (SD)	Subjective frequency rating standard deviation (as rated by both native and non-native signers)
Sign Frequency (Z)	Standardized subjective frequency rating (z) (as rated by both native and non-native signers)
Sign Frequency (N)	Number of participants on which average frequency rating is based (both native and non-native signers)
Sign Frequency (M, Native)	Mean subjective frequency rating (as rated by native ASL signers only)
Sign Frequency (SD, Native)	Subjective frequency rating standard deviation (as rated by native ASL signers only)
Sign Frequency (Z, Native)	Standardized subjective frequency rating (z) (as rated by native ASL signers only)
Sign Frequency (N, Native)	Number of participants on which average frequency rating is based (native ASL signers only)

Iconicity

Iconicity (M)	Mean iconicity rating (1 = not iconic at all; 7 = very iconic)
Iconicity (SD)	Iconicity rating standard deviation (as rated by hearing non-signers)
Iconicity (Z)	Standardized iconicity rating (z) (as rated by hearing non-signers)
Iconicity (N)	Number of participants on which mean iconicity rating is based (hearing non-signers)

Lexical Properties

Lexical Class	The sign's lexical class (Adjective, Adverb, Name, Noun, Number, Verb, and Minor: Preposition, Pronoun, Conjunction)
Compound	"1" indicates that the sign is a compound. Compounds are signs that include more than one free morpheme, and morpheme boundaries are often indicated by a change in selected fingers or major location.
Initialized	"1" indicates that the handshape of the sign is the first letter of the English translation
Fingerspelled Loan Sign	"1" indicates that the sign includes more than one letter of the manual alphabet

Phonological Properties

Sign Type	Symmetry of the hands according to Battison's sign types
Selected Fingers	Fingers that are moving or foregrounded in the first morpheme of the sign; Thumb is ignored unless it is the only selected finger in the sign
Flexion	Aperture of the selected fingers of the dominant hand at sign onset
Major Location	General location of the dominant hand at sign onset
Minor Location	Specific location of the dominant hand at sign onset
Movement	Path movement of the first morpheme in the sign

Sub-Lexical Frequency Properties

Sign Type Frequency	The count of other signs in which the sign type occurs
Major Location Frequency	The count of other signs in which the major location occurs
Selected Finger Frequency	The count of other signs in which the selected fingers occurs
Flexion Frequency	The count of other signs in which the flexion occurs
Movement Frequency	The count of other signs in which the movement occurs
Handshape Frequency	The count of other signs in which the combination of flexion and selected fingers occurs

Neighborhood Properties

Minimal Neighborhood Density	Number of signs that share one or more of five coded phonological properties (movement, flexion, selected fingers, major location, and sign type) with the sign
Parameter-Based Neighborhood Density	Number of signs that share all four of four phonological properties (movement, flexion, selected fingers, major location) with the sign
Maximal Neighborhood Density	Number of signs that share four or more of five coded phonological properties (movement, flexion, selected fingers, major location, and sign type) with the sign

Alternative English Translations

Alternative Glosses	A list of alternative glosses provided by native and non-native signers, and the percent agreement with the gloss among both native and non-native signers
Percent Unknown	Percentage of participants who did not know the sign (out of both native and non-native signers)
Percent Unknown (Native)	Percentage of participants who did not know the sign (out of native ASL signers only)
Gloss Confirmation	"1" indicates that English translations of ASL sign are available - see Alternative Glosses Appendix for items marked as "1"
Percent Gloss Agreement	Percent agreement with the dominant gloss among both native and non-native signers
Percent Gloss Agreement (Native)	Percent agreement with the dominant gloss among native ASL signers only

Video Information

Sign Onset (ms)	The sign onset (milliseconds)
Sign Offset (ms)	The sign offset (milliseconds)
Sign Length (ms)	Duration of sign (milliseconds)
Clip Length (ms)	Duration of clip (milliseconds)

ASL-LEX

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Frequency Properties

Phonological Properties

Iconicity Properties

Lexical Properties

Sub-Lexical Frequency Properties

Neighborhood Density

Frequency Properties

Phonological Properties

Iconicity Properties

Lexical Properties

Sub-Lexical Frequency Properties

Neighborhood Properties

Sign Frequency

Iconicity

Lexical Properties

Phonological Properties

Sub-Lexical Frequency Properties

Neighborhood Properties

Alternative English Translations

Video Information