Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Measuring vocal fatigue in sports coaches
(2017)Objective: This study explores the immediate impact of prolonged voice use by professional sports coaches. Method: Speech samples including sustained phonation of vowel /a/ and a short read passage were collected from two ... -
GlóRí - the glottal research instrument
(2014)This papers presents GlóRí - the glottal research instrument. GlóRí is a speech analysis interface which offers a flexibility and multiplicity of approaches to voice analysis. The system allows for fully automatic processing, ... -
The distribution of pitch patterns and communicative types in speech chunks preceding pauses and gaps
(2014)As part of a broader study of voice prosody in speech communication, this paper looks at intonation in turn-taking. It examines the distribution of pitch patterns and communicative types in the interpausal units (IPUs) ... -
Access to employment for deaf graduates, employees and jobseeking signers: findings from the DESIGNS project
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Approved communication support for deaf patients in Ireland during COVID-1
(European Union of the Deaf, 2021) -
The LF Model in the Frequency Domain for Glottal Airflow Modelling without Aliasing Distortion
(2021)Many of the commonly used voice source models are based on piecewise elementary functions defined in the time domain. The discrete-time implementation of such models generally causes aliasing distortion, ... -
Hidden Histories: Deaf Lives Ireland
(Interesource Ltd, 2012)This important project represents the first structured opportunity to train Deaf community members as community archivists in the Republic of Ireland. It has successfully brought together a mixed group of Irish ... -
ICE on Food: Talk related to foodways in the International Corpus of English
(2015)The frequency of occurrence of food verbs across ICE corpora is remarkably consistent, though ICE-CN is remarkably lower Food verbs favour light verbs, with decreasing frequency accounted for by semantic features: manner ... -
The Envoys of Phywa to Dmu (PT 126)
(2021)New are the texts which offer a glimpse into Tibet’s religious traditions as they existed before the adoption of Buddhism as the state religion in 762. With the exception of stone inscriptions the earliest extant ... -
Scholarship on Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) languages of South East Asia
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2021)The spread of the Trans-Himalayan family¹ naturally paid no attention to 21st century political boundaries. The family includes languages with a geographic range from Balti Tibetan in Pakistan to Hokkien Chinese in ... -
Defining meaningful units. Challenges in sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping
(Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2021)This paper addresses the tasks of sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping in the con- text of sign language (SL) recognition. It aims to give an overview of the linguistic properties of SL, such as coarticulation and ... -
Evaluation of the Signing Information Mid-West Project
(PAUL Partnership, Limerick, 2008)This report centres on the review of the Irish Sign Language/English interpreting services provided in the Mid-West via the “Signing Information Mid-West” service. This was established under the aegis of Enhancing Disability ... -
HIDDEN HISTORIES: Deaf Lives Ireland
(Interesource Group, 2012)A booklet issued on the Irish part of the European-wide project: Hidden Histories: Intercultural Dialogue and Learning - administered by Community Engagement Unit in the University of Sussex. This booklet accompanies the ... -
Is There Poverty in the Deaf Community? Report on the interviews of randomly selected members of the Deaf Community in Dublin to determine the extent of poverty within the Community
(2002)This small-scale survey aims to establish and ascertain the relative poverty level of Deaf people. The concept of relative poverty as defined by the National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS) is as follows, people are living ... -
Deaf communities in Ireland and Finland: a comparative analysis
(Douglas McLean, 2004)
