Centre for Language and Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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Voice quality in affect cueing: does loudness matter?
(2013)In emotional speech research, it has been suggested that loudness, along with other prosodic features, may be an important cue in communicating high activation affects. In earlier studies, we found different voice quality ... -
Using listening journals to raise awareness of Global Englishes in ELT
(2014)With the increasing use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), it is no longer appropriate to associate English purely with ‘native-speaking’ nations, but with a global community of users. This article reports on the use of ... -
CEFR for Sign Languages: A1-B2
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Phonetic feature extraction for context-sensitive glottal source processing
(2014)The effectiveness of glottal source analysis is known to be dependent on the phonetic properties of its concomitant supraglottal features. Phonetic classes like nasals and fricatives are particularly problematic. Their ... -
Metalinguistic knowledge in instructed second language acquisition: A theoretical model and its application in computer-mediated communicationi
(University of Dublin, Trinity College, Trinity College Dublin, 2003)This thesis has three interrelated aims: (1) to elaborate a model of instructed second language acquisition (SLA) that brings together insights from cognitive research in second language acquisition and from the developmental ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
