Centre for Language and Communication Studies: Recent submissions
Now showing items 21-40 of 312
-
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines
(2024) -
Investigating Medical English as a Lingua Franca: Determining the Effectiveness of Communication between Healthcare Practitioners in Hospital Settings in Saudi Arabia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2024)This thesis investigates the effectiveness of communication between healthcare practitioners in multilingual hospital settings in Buraidah, Saudi Arabia, with a focus on Medical English as a Lingua Franca (MELF). With the ... -
The beauty of the Grotesque : a history and semiotics of serifless typefaces
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2016)This is a study of a style of typeface - the Grotesque - and a way of thinking about this style that was central to twentieth-century typographic discourse. It traces both the development of Grotesque styles, and the ... -
Sign Language Interpreting in Ireland
(Gallaudet University Press, 2025)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 ... -
Investigating the experiences of in-service English language teachers in the use of language corpora for teaching purposes: An international action research study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2024)For several decades, applied linguists have highlighted the benefits of using authentic language samples in language learning classrooms in acquiring genuine use of a language. Yet, few EFL teachers use corpora in their ... -
"Is the Ground Ready?" Exploring the Use of Feminist Pedagogy in Refugee Education in Greece Through a Feminist, Intersectional Approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2024)The present study explores the use of a feminist pedagogy approach in a refugee education context in Greece. Its main aim is to discuss whether the ground is ready for such an approach, through examining the following three ... -
Sign Languages in Britain and Ireland
(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 Design and Evaluation of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning Tools for Beginner Learners of Mandarin Chinese
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2023)The present research aims to design and evaluate two Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (iCALL) prototypes to assist the teaching and learning of spoken Chinese in the Irish post-primary context. The research ... -
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 ... -
Examining the effectiveness of an embedded language education programme for international health science students in an Irish university
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2023)This study examines the effectiveness of an embedded language programme for international English as an Additional Language (EAL), health science students studying on a medicine or physiotherapy degree at an Irish university. ... -
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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...
