School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences : Recent submissions
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Processing 'yup!' and other short utterances in interactive speech
(IEEE, 2011)The detection of short utterances in conversational or interactive speech is essential to the proper processing of meaning in spoken interaction. Short, simple utterances are extremely common, and because of their highly ... -
Prosodic Synchrony in Co-operative Task-based Dialogues: A Measure of Agreement and Disagreement
Prosodic synchrony has been reported to be an important as- pect of conversational dyads. In this paper, synchrony in four different dyads is examined. A Time Aligned Moving Aver- age (TAMA) procedure is used to temporally ... -
Witnessing Stories: Definitional Ceremonies in Narrative Therapy with Adults who Stutter
(2012)Background: Narrative therapy (White & Epston, 1990) was developed as an approach to counselling, as a response to the power relations that influence people's lives. Its use with people who stutter has been documented. A ... -
Gender in Irish between continuity and change
(2011)The gender system of Irish appears to have undergone a process of simplification: traditionally depending on both formal and semantic assignment rules, agreement in contemporary spoken Irish is still rather conservative ... -
On the use of multimodal cues for the prediction of involvement in spontaneous conversation
(2011)Quantifying the degree of involvement of a group of participants in a conversation is a task which humans accomplish every day, but it is something that, as of yet, machines are unable to do. In this study we first investigate ... -
Student perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of problem based learning.
(Department of Education, 2004)A higher education puts a woman in control of herself and that lasts a lifetime. According to DeMott (1990), the resource most widely used as a tool for upward mobility is education. However, for many women, the opportunity ... -
Examining students' clinical skills: Assessment of the 'unseen' client in a speech and language therapy clinic
(AISHE, 2007)Towards the end of their undergraduate careers, speech and language therapy stu- dents are expected to have developed an advanced level of clinical expertise, in the assessment, diagnosis and management of a wide range of ... -
The 'triple jump' assessment in problem based learning: An evaluative method used in the appraisal of both knowledge acquisition and problem solving skills
(AISHE, 2007)Learning and evaluation are inextricably linked, and students who are active participants in their own learning should be active participants in the assessment of their acquired knowledge (Rangachari, 2002). The triple ... -
Language learner autonomy and the European Language Portfolio: two L2 English examples
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)This article argues that the Council of Europe's European Language Portfolio is capable of supporting the implementation of language learner autonomy on a large scale. It begins by explaining what the author understands ... -
EDUCATION OF EUROPEAN FLUENCY SPECIALISTS The European Clinical Specialization on Fluency Disorders (ECSF)
(2011)The European Clinical Specialization on Fluency Disorders (ECSF) project consists of one-year post-qualification fluency specialization training and a harmonized graduate fluency program. It was developed by eight European ... -
Arrah, like, you know: The dynamics of discourse marking in ICE-Ireland.
(2006)For over 400 years, dramatists, novelists, and other writers seeking to depict Irish characters have relied in part on words and phrases taken to be indexical of Irishness when representing the conversational functions ... -
Language learner autonomy: Myth, magic or miracle?
(2010)The shift in emphasis away from the processes involved in teaching languages towards the processes involved in learning languages in formal educational contexts has brought about one of the most remarkable changes to ... -
Towards Earlier and Improved Detection of Oropharyngeal Swallowing Disorders in the Acute Care Setting
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, 1999)Oropharyngeal swallowing disorders (OPSD) leading to aspiration and reduced swallow efficiency are common in the acute care setting. Patients presenting with swallow disorders are at a significant risk of developing medical ... -
An Audio-Visual Approach to Measuring Discourse Synchrony in Multimodal Conversation Data
(ISCA, 2009)This paper describes recent work on the automatic extraction of visual and audio parameters relating to the detection of synchrony in discourse, and to the modelling of active listening for advanced speech technology. ... -
Language Resources of the Future (a speech-based position paper)
(2010)Current speech technology is well capable of processing the mappings between speech and text, but the challenge at the current time is to model the information flow in interactive speech, where propositional content is ... -
Transformation of LF parameters for speech synthesis of emotion: regression trees
(ISCA, 2008)This paper outlines an approach to modelling the dynamics of voice source parameters as observed in the analysis of emotional portrayals, by a male speaker of Hiberno-English. The emotions portrayed were happy, angry, ... -
Automatic parameterisation of the glottal waveform combining time and frequency domain measures
(2009)This paper describes a new technique for automatically parameterising the inverse filtered speech waveform by exploiting frequency domain measures and amplitude measures in the time domain. The technique is motivated by ... -
Voice Quality Variation and the Perception of Affect: Continuous or Categorical?
(2003)This paper explores the mapping of voice quality to affect, for a synthesised tense ? lax voice continuum. Two questions are of interest. Firstly, over such a continuum, do listeners? attributions of affect change in a ... -
Modelling intonation in three Irish dialects
(2003)This paper provides a preliminary account of features of the intonation structure of three Irish dialects, Donegal (Ulster Irish), Mayo, and Aran Islands, using the IViE system [1, 2]. The sentence types examined were ...
