Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications)
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Sign Language Interpreting in Ireland
(Gallaudet University Press, 2024)This chapter documents the development of sign language interpreting (SLI) education and research in Ireland. In 1994, the first cohort of interpreters graduated with a Diploma in Irish Sign Language (ISL)/English Interpreting ... -
Irish Sign Language: Ireland's Third Language
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)Deaf people are typically multilingual and use multimodal resources, i.e. sign, writing and speech, for communication in their everyday lives (Quinto-Pozos & Adam 2013). This is due to the fact that only 5% of all deaf ... -
The perceptual effects of aliasing distortion in glottal flow modelling
(2023)When modelling the glottal flow signal in a discrete- time system, the aliasing distortion that is produced is typically ignored. The assumption is that the percep- tual effects are negligible if the sampling frequency ... -
A system for generating voice source signals that implements the transformed LF-model parameter control
(2023)This paper describes a system which fully implements the transformed LF glottal flow model, incorporating also the often-overlooked k-factors. A problem with the original proposal is that the global waveshape parameter ... -
Representing and Computing Uncertainty in Phonological Reconstruction
(2023)Despite the inherently fuzzy nature of recon- structions in historical linguistics, most schol- ars do not represent their uncertainty when proposing proto-forms. With the increasing success of recently proposed approaches ... -
Printed Text Recognition for Lexical Lists in Chinese-International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Glossing
(Ubiquity Press, Ltd., 2023)This study presents a dataset serving as a benchmark for the recognition of printed text in lexical lists using Chinese-IPA glossing. The paper provides an overview of the baseline model, transcription model, and PyLaia ... -
Barrier-free and interpreter-free. Deaf signers and hearing sign language interpreters' perspectives on an ideal world (Belgium, Flanders)
(2023)Globally, deaf associations and sign language interpreters’ organizations support the idea that interpreting services are equivalent to access and inclusion for deaf people. Researchers have challenged this assumption by ... -
Chinese Transcription of Buddhist Terms in the Late H?n Dynasty
(Ubiquity Press, Ltd., 2023)This dataset is a compilation of Chinese transcriptions of Buddhist terms produced by translators from the late Hàn period. It is a compilation of the previous works of Coblin (1983), Karashima (2010), Vetter (2012), Hill, ... -
Optimisation of the Largest Annotated Tibetan Corpus Combining Rule-based, Memory-based, and Deep-learning Methods
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021)This paper presents the new and improved version of the Annotated Corpus of Classical Tibetan (ACTib). These segmented and POS-tagged versions of all available texts in the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC) were ... -
Computer-Assisted Language Comparison: State of the Art
(Ubiquity Press, Ltd., 2020)Historical language comparison opens windows onto a human past, long before the availability of written records. Since traditional language comparison within the framework of the comparative method is largely based on ... -
The differing status of reconstruction in Trans-Himalayan and Indo-European
(2019)The replies to Fellner and Hill (this volume) present the practice of historical linguistics in the study of the Trans-Himalayan family as on the trail our Indo-European forbears blazed. The replies further present “word ... -
Tibetan zero nominalization
(2019)Several researchers draw attention to the ability of Tibeto-Burman languages to use nominalized verb forms in finite contexts (Matisoff 1972, Coupe, ed. 2008, DeLancey 2011), but the reverse pattern—morphologically finite ... -
Lenition alternation in West Gyalrongic and its implications for Southeast Asian panchronic phonology
(2023)Based on internal reconstruction, this paper resolves a long-standing problem observed in Khroskyabs, a West Gyalrongic language (Sino-Tibetan), that seems to sporadically have lenited voiceless stops, resulting in irregular ... -
Variations étymologiques sur l'étymon sino-tibétain 'étau, pinces'
(2022)La racine originellement signifiant ‘étau, pinces’, se retrouve dans beaucoup de langues sino-tibétaines à travers l’Himalaya avec différents sens, y compris ‘dent/moliare’, ‘mâchoire’, ‘mâcher’ et ‘vulve, vagin’, outre ... -
Establishing Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP) normative data for young adults in Ireland: the impact of gender, speech task and recording conditions
(2023)Background: Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP) is currently recommended as a robust measure of dysphonia in clinical voice assessment (Patel et al., 2018). Its use in clinic is limited due to its relative conceptual ... -
Shaw, Á., & Yanushevskaya, I. (2021). Students' views and experiences of the training and use of phonetic transcription in speech and language therapy: the Irish perspective
(2021)Phonetic transcription is an essential skill for practising SLTs required during the assessment, diagnosis and management of clients with speech difficulties Student SLTs must receive appropriate training to carry out ... -
Making and agreeing to requests in Old Tibetan
(2023)The verbs གསོལ་ gsol ‘request’ and གནང་ gnaṅ ‘agree, grant', because of their complementary semantics and parallel syntax, provide a convenient window through which to caste light on the two forms of subordinate clauses ...