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Title:		What’s your sign for TORTILLA? Documenting lexical variation in Yucatec Maya Sign Languages
Bibliographic Citation:		Safar, Josefina; 2021-02; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24970.
Creator:		Safar, Josefina
Date (W3CDTF):		2021-02
Description:		In this paper, I discuss methodological and ethical issues that arose in the process of documenting lexical variation in Yucatec Maya Sign Languages (YMSLs). YMSLs are indigenous sign languages used by deaf and hearing people in Yucatec Maya villages with a high incidence of deafness in the peninsula of Yucatán, Mexico. The documentation of rural sign languages such as YMSLs shares many characteristics with research on urban sign languages as well as spoken minority languages, but it also comes with a range of specific challenges. Elicitation materials, research procedures, and ethical decisions need to be adapted to specific local and cultural requirements while trying to maintain a level of comparability with previous studies. I will illustrate this process of negotiation by providing a detailed account of how I developed stimulus materials for lexical elicitation, obtained informed consent from the participants, and established ways of collaboration with community members in the Yucatec Maya Sign Language Documentation Project. Furthermore, I will present first results about lexical variation in YMSLs.
		National Foreign Language Resource Center
Format:		45 pages
Identifier:		Safar, Josefina. 2019. What’s your sign for TORTILLA? Documenting lexical variation in Yucatec Maya Sign Languages. Language Documentation & Conservation 15: 30-74. (http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24970)
		1934-5275
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24970
Publisher:		University of Hawaii Press
Rights:		Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
		Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
		http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
Subject:		sign languages
		Yucatec Maya Sign Languages
		Mexico
		collaboration
		language documentation
Table Of Contents:		safar.pdf
Type:		Article
Type (DCMI):		Text
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Citation:		Safar, Josefina. 2021. University of Hawaii Press.
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