Centre for Language and Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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The ABAIR Initiative: Bringing Spoken Irish into the Digital Space
(2017)The processes of language demise take hold when a language ceases to belong to the mainstream of life’s activities. Digital communication technology increasingly pervades all aspects of modern life. Languages not digitally ... -
Cross-speaker variation in voice source correlates of focus and deaccentuation
(2017)This paper describes cross-speaker variation in the voice source correlates of focal accentuation and deaccentuation. A set of utterances with varied narrow focus placement as well as broad focus and deaccented renditions ... -
Voice-to-affect mapping: Inferences on language voice baseline settings
(2017)Modulations of the voice convey affect, and the precise mapping of voice-to-affect may vary for different languages. However, affect-related modulations occur relative to the baseline affect-neutral voice, which tends to ... -
Rd as a control parameter to explore affective correlates of the tense-lax continuum
(2017)This study uses the Rd glottal waveshape parameter to simulate the phonatory tense-lax continuum and to explore its affective correlates in terms of activation and valence. Based on a natural utterance which was inverse ... -
The interaction of long-term voice quality with the realisation of focus
(2016)Voice quality shifts have been shown to be associated with the realisation of accent, focus and deaccentuation. Mostly, accented and focally accented syllables are reported to exhibit a tenser mode of phonation than the ... -
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 ... -
Reshaping the transformed LF model: generating the glottal source from the waveshape parameter Rd
(2017)Precise specification of the voice source would facilitate better modelling of expressive nuances in human spoken interaction. This paper focuses on the transformed version of the widely used LF voice source model, and ... -
Valence adjusting in Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra in a role and reference grammar account
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)This thesis is a synchronic study of valence adjusting, switch-reference and ellipsis in three dialects of the Australian Western Desert language, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra (PYN). We investigate the ... -
The Creation and Complexity Analysis of a Corpus of Educational Materials in Irish (EduGA)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)Abstract This research presents the construction of a 7.5-million word corpus of educational materials for teaching Irish and for teaching other subjects through the medium of Irish. This corpus is called EduGA. The corpus ... -
Accounting for the features of Shape and Transitivity in a Functional-Typological approach to the Ring Languages
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)The Ring languages, an understudied sub-group of the Grassfields Bantu family is examined from a function-typological perspective in relation to features of [Shape] and [Transitivity] as per Rijkhoff (2002, 2003). The word ... -
Multilingual Identities: A Study of Attitudes towards Multilingualism in Three European Cities
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Demotivation in Learning Chinese as an Additional Language: Insights of Irish Chinese Learners
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)The teaching and learning of Chinese as an Additional Language (CAL) faces many challenges in an Irish context. Among them, demotivation is a prevalent issue identified among learners in Irish higher education. An ... -
Professionalising in a freelance eco-system
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)This study takes a Classic Grounded Theory (CGT) approach to identifying the key concern of Irish Sign Language interpreters with respect to their professional practice and how they resolve the main concern. The rationale ... -
On Triple Complementation in Southern Lazio dialects
(2017)Southern Italian dialects (SIDs) are traditionally claimed to use a dual finite complementiser system. In these varieties it is possible to distinguish between a complementiser derived from QUIA (>ca), which introduces ... -
Sign Languages
(Council of Europe and European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML), 2019)In 2018, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe passed a resolution on Sign Languages (Resolution 2247). This recognises the thirty plus indigenous sign languages of Europe as natural languages but also ...
