Centre for Language and Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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The effects of study abroad on second language grammatical development : a qualitative study of the written performance of four Irish advanced learners of French
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2003)This thesis begins with a review of the literature on second language learning and study abroad with specific reference to linguistic progress, points out the shortcomings of the some of the research to date, and considers ... -
Towards a discipline of implicational linguistics : evidence from Korean learners of English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2008)A wealth of new models related to language and language teaching/learning have been introduced of late, but despite the fact that these models have much to offer a more complete view of language, they have yet to be ... -
Sentence mode, alignment and focus in the intonation of Cois Fharraige, Inis Mór and Gaoth Dobhair Irish : a dual approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2014)This work is devoted to the analysis of the intonation in three varieties of Irish: Gaoth Dobhair (Donegal within Ulster), and Cois Fharraige and Inis Mor (Connemara within Connaught). The experimental work is carried out ... -
First language attrition and second language acquisition in a second language environment
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)This thesis is concerned with the outcomes of the parallel processes of first language maintenance and second language acquisition in adult bilinguals resident in a second language environment. Current perspectives on first ... -
A relevance theoretic analysis of contrast connectives in Spanish : pero and aunque
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2008)This thesis presents a pragmatic analysis of a number of contrast connectives in Spanish, in particular pero ‘but’ and aunque ‘although’. The study follows the theoretical framework of Relevance Theory (RT). The ideas put ... -
The spoken Irish of sixth-class pupils in Irish immersion schools
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)The aim of the present study is to investigate the acquisition of Irish by sixth-class pupils in all-Irish primary schools, with a particular focus on the features of their spoken Irish. Although there is a long historical ... -
A study of valency in Modern Irish
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2002)The main aim of this thesis is to characterise the factors that underpin the syntactic and semantic valency of the Irish verb in terms of a functional approach that is sensitive to aspectuality in the Aktionsarten sense ... -
Learner identity, motivation and autonomy in EFL pronunciation learning : development and evaluation of a pedagogical model
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)This thesis has three broad aims. Firstly, it sets out to explore the nature of the relationship between pronunciation and identity. Secondly, it aims to establish whether such a relationship can contribute to a model of ... -
Cost function optimisation for unit selection speech synthesis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2012)The primary focus of this thesis was the optimisation of the cost function of a unit selection speech synthesiser. This was achieved by: -- 1. investigating the signal processing techniques used to calculate numerical ... -
Tools for analysing the voice : developments in glottal source and quality analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2012)This thesis documents a range of research carried out on the topic of glottal source and voice quality analysis. Initially, a review is given of the physiological and acoustic correlates of different vocal settings. This ... -
Investigating the adoption of a university virtual learning environment : an Activity Theoretic analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)Recent literature in e-leaming research and computer-assisted language learning (CALL) asserts that technologies are under-used in higher education. There has been specific criticism in e-learning research of the virtual ... -
Temporal expressions in Italian : a relevance-theoretic account
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)In this thesis we aim to give an inferential account of the Italian temporal expressions allora 'then', ora 'now', adesso 'now', ancora 'still', gia 'already', sempre 'always', poi 'then, also', and mentre 'while'. The ... -
An empirical investigation of the association between musical aptitude and foreign language aptitude
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2006)Given the joint ubiquity of music and language, and pre-theoretic similarities between the two, it is relevant to consider the relationship between musical ability and linguistic ability, specifically in relation to second ... -
Sub-dialect variation in the intonation of Donegal Irish
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2014)The topic of this thesis is the analysis of sub-dialect variation in the intonation of Donegal (Ulster) Irish. The four local Donegal Irish varieties investigated are Rann na Feirste (RF), Baile na Finne (BF), Gleann Cholm ... -
The phonetics and phonology of the intonation of Irish dialects
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2008)This study is concerned with describing the intonation of the major dialects of Irish, comprising the Donegal dialect of Gaoth Dobhair, the Connaught dialects of Cois Fhairrge, Inis Oírr and Mayo, and the Munster dialect ... -
Some adult refugees learning English in Ireland : the motivational role of goal-setting and the European Language Portfolio
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2006)This thesis examines how goal-setting in the L2 classroom, supported by the European Language Portfolio, contributes to learner motivation. It is argued that a sociocultural understanding of leaming, and an approach to the ... -
Tandem language learning on the Internet : theory, tool development and empirical exploration
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2004)The objective of this thesis is to investigate and advance the use of electronic mail for tandem language learning. Earlier research raised the following primary issues. Firstly, there were some organizational problems ... -
Gender in Insular Celtic : a functionalist account of variation and change in Irish and Welsh
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)In this study, I investigate linguistic variation and change in a situation of language contact and obsolescence; specifically, I look at grammatical gender in Insular Celtic. The analysis of this linguistic phenomenon is ...
