Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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The common European framework and the European language portfolio in Taiwan's third-level English language education : a longitudinal empirical evaluation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)This thesis is a longitudinal examination of how the introduction of the Council of Europe’s European Language Portfolio (ELP) has affected English language learning and teaching in a third-level institute in Taiwan. It ... -
Segmental and intonational analysis of Drogheda English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)This study is concerned with describing the variety of English used in Drogheda, the main town in the North-East of Ireland. The town of Drogheda is approximately 35 miles away from the capital city, Dublin. It also lies ... -
Standard English and standards in English in a changing world : a case study - Irish Standard English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2005)This study investigates the question ‘Does such a phenomenon as Irish Standard English exist, and if it does, what are some of the characteristics of its forms and use?’ The research question is investigated in three ways. ... -
Discourse, insult, and cultural values
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2000)This dissertation addresses the importance of insult in the discourse of intercultural interaction encounters. Following previous interdisciplinary studies on the subject of tabooed language and insult this study points ... -
Konglish : Cross-linguistic lexical issues for Korean learners of English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)The present study investigated ow the mental lexicon of Korean learners of English is organized, and, in particular, how resources required to comprehend and produce English are stored and accessed in their mental lexicon ... -
Motivation and the learning environment : a study of Japanese learners of English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2004)The thesis explores motivation, and the ways in which it is subject to change, among university-level Japanese learners of English as they react to different learning experiences. -
An investigation into the proficiency of successful late learners of French
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)The introduction to tiiis thesis provides a background for the study as well as the reasons behind the choice of subject. In the second chapter of the thesis there is a review of the literature on the Critical Period ... -
The canonical passive construction in Arabic and English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2000)This is a detailed comparative study into the canonical passive construction (i.e. its verbal representation) in two genetically unrelated languages, namely, Arabic (its written variety in particular) and English. From a ... -
The effects of study abroad on second language grammatical development : a qualitative study of the written performance of four Irish advanced learners of French
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2003)This thesis begins with a review of the literature on second language learning and study abroad with specific reference to linguistic progress, points out the shortcomings of the some of the research to date, and considers ... -
Towards a discipline of implicational linguistics : evidence from Korean learners of English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2008)A wealth of new models related to language and language teaching/learning have been introduced of late, but despite the fact that these models have much to offer a more complete view of language, they have yet to be ... -
Sentence mode, alignment and focus in the intonation of Cois Fharraige, Inis Mór and Gaoth Dobhair Irish : a dual approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2014)This work is devoted to the analysis of the intonation in three varieties of Irish: Gaoth Dobhair (Donegal within Ulster), and Cois Fharraige and Inis Mor (Connemara within Connaught). The experimental work is carried out ... -
First language attrition and second language acquisition in a second language environment
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)This thesis is concerned with the outcomes of the parallel processes of first language maintenance and second language acquisition in adult bilinguals resident in a second language environment. Current perspectives on first ... -
A relevance theoretic analysis of contrast connectives in Spanish : pero and aunque
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2008)This thesis presents a pragmatic analysis of a number of contrast connectives in Spanish, in particular pero ‘but’ and aunque ‘although’. The study follows the theoretical framework of Relevance Theory (RT). The ideas put ... -
The spoken Irish of sixth-class pupils in Irish immersion schools
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)The aim of the present study is to investigate the acquisition of Irish by sixth-class pupils in all-Irish primary schools, with a particular focus on the features of their spoken Irish. Although there is a long historical ... -
A study of valency in Modern Irish
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2002)The main aim of this thesis is to characterise the factors that underpin the syntactic and semantic valency of the Irish verb in terms of a functional approach that is sensitive to aspectuality in the Aktionsarten sense ... -
Learner identity, motivation and autonomy in EFL pronunciation learning : development and evaluation of a pedagogical model
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)This thesis has three broad aims. Firstly, it sets out to explore the nature of the relationship between pronunciation and identity. Secondly, it aims to establish whether such a relationship can contribute to a model of ... -
Cost function optimisation for unit selection speech synthesis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2012)The primary focus of this thesis was the optimisation of the cost function of a unit selection speech synthesiser. This was achieved by: -- 1. investigating the signal processing techniques used to calculate numerical ... -
Tools for analysing the voice : developments in glottal source and quality analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2012)This thesis documents a range of research carried out on the topic of glottal source and voice quality analysis. Initially, a review is given of the physiological and acoustic correlates of different vocal settings. This ... -
Investigating the adoption of a university virtual learning environment : an Activity Theoretic analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)Recent literature in e-leaming research and computer-assisted language learning (CALL) asserts that technologies are under-used in higher education. There has been specific criticism in e-learning research of the virtual ... -
Temporal expressions in Italian : a relevance-theoretic account
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)In this thesis we aim to give an inferential account of the Italian temporal expressions allora 'then', ora 'now', adesso 'now', ancora 'still', gia 'already', sempre 'always', poi 'then, also', and mentre 'while'. The ...
