The work of arriving at a set of 105 test items (100 main items plus five practice items) was carried out by a team of Deaf and hearing sign language researchers and involved both excluding certain categories of signs, similar to what had previously been done for a lexical comparison study involving DSGS (Ebling et al., 2015), and prioritizing specific signs.
signs denoting persons (e.g., CHARLIE-CHAPLIN), organizations (e.g., GAL-LAUDET), places (e.g., AUSTRALIEN 'AUSTRALIA'), and languages (e.g., DEUTSCH 'GERMAN') were excluded.