Centre for Language and Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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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
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Potential of the Centre for Deaf Studies (CDS): its role in enhancing social justice for the Deaf community: a personal observation
(2005)The establishment of the Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of Dublin, Trinity College, is justifiably regarded as a milestone in the history of the Deaf community. The paper briefly examines the general perception ... -
Who decides? Language education policies for Deaf children - Selected findings from a comparative analysis of Finnish and Irish policies on signed languages.
(2015)This chapter offers a comparative analysis of language education policies (LEP) for Deaf children in Finland and Ireland. In order to discuss the topic we touch on six main components. These six components are selected on ... -
International student adjustment in Irish universities: Language-related challenges and the role of EAP
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2021)The present study explores the role of language in non-native English speaking (NNES) international students adaptation in Irish universities, as well as the role of EAP in-sessional programmes in adaptation. This is ... -
Finnish and Irish Sign Languages: an egalitarian analysis of language policies and their effects
(UCD, 2010)This study aimed to advance academic understanding of what equality of condition (Baker, et al., 2004) would mean for Deaf people about recognising signed language in both education and access to information in particular. ... -
Tourists in their own land - A Social Policy Analysis of the Irish Deaf Community s Participation in Society.
(TCD, 2001)It is useful to ask why it is necessary to analyse social policy. There are several answers to this question. Firstly, social policies affect how people live, and they can be studied to find out what way is the best way ... -
Hands in Motion: Learning to Fingerspell in Irish Sign Language (ISL)
(2020)Irish Sign Language uses a one-handed alphabet in which each fingerspelled letter has a unique combination of handshape, orientation, and, in a few cases, path movement. Each letter is used to represent ... -
Online and Kicking: Sign Language Activism via Social Media
(2019)Online activism in the Irish Deaf community demonstrates leveraging of multimodal linguistic repertories (as per Kusters et al 2017) ; it started as community-led work towards ISL recognition. Some fora are more ISL-led, ... -
"Making our own language": The translanguaging practices of transnational youths in Zacatecas, Mexico
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2021)This dissertation explores the discursive practices of twenty-three transnational youths located in Zacatecas, Mexico. The analysis of the qualitative data obtained is informed by Translanguaging )—a practical theory of ... -
Controlling the voice quality dimension of prosody in synthetic speech using an acoustic glottal model
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2021)Statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) offers a means of generating synthetic speech without the need for complex and extensive rules. One way in which this approach is sometimes lacking is through the use of simple ... -
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across different signed languages
(2020)Do deaf signers of different signed languages do reference the same way? Here we compare how signers of five signed languages coordinate fully conventionalised forms (such as lexical manual signs, fingerspelling ... -
Assistive Technologies for Dyslexia: Punctuation and its Interfaces with Speech
Considering the well-documented issues of dyslexic students with the use of punctuation, the main purpose of this dissertation is to create a Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) tool that assists dyslexic learners ... -
The Historical Dictionary as an Exploratory Tool: A Digital Edition of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic's Lexicon Serbico-Germanico-Latinum
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)My work on the digital edition of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić’s Srpski Rječnik: Lexicon Serbico-Germanico-Latinum advances the theory and practice of digitizing historical dictionaries by demonstrating how detailed, annotated, ... -
Conducting Longitudinal Research Among Adult Refugees
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The affordances of virtual exchange for developing global competence and active citizenship in content-based language learning
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)In times characterised by constant technological growth and increased mobility of people and ideas within complex societies across the globe, initiatives such as virtual exchange can be seen as attempts to cross global ... -
Perceptual salience of voice source parameters in signaling focal prominence
(2016)paper describes listening tests investigating the perceptual role of voice source parameters (other than F0) in signaling focal prominence. Synthesized stimuli were constructed on the basis of an inverse filtered utterance ...
