Centre for Language and Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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The differing status of reconstruction in Trans-Himalayan and Indo-European
(2019)The replies to Fellner and Hill (this volume) present the practice of historical linguistics in the study of the Trans-Himalayan family as on the trail our Indo-European forbears blazed. The replies further present “word ... -
Tibetan zero nominalization
(2019)Several researchers draw attention to the ability of Tibeto-Burman languages to use nominalized verb forms in finite contexts (Matisoff 1972, Coupe, ed. 2008, DeLancey 2011), but the reverse pattern—morphologically finite ... -
Multilingualism in Hong Kong: A Social Identity Theory Perspective
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2023)The linguistic situation in Hong Kong is often described as being trilingual and biliterate. This thesis sets out to examine the link between language and the sense of national identity in Hong Kong from a social identity ... -
L-Vocalisation in Somerset
Traditional dialects in British English are undergoing a process of change, due in part to urbanisation, increased social mobility and language contact through population movement. Within British English there are several ... -
Up-Rising: A Phonological and Phonetic Study of Intonation in Derry City English
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2023)This thesis provides an account of the phonology and phonetics of intonation in Derry City English using the Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) framework (Ladd, 2008). It focuses on the phonological inventory and phonetic features ... -
Lenition alternation in West Gyalrongic and its implications for Southeast Asian panchronic phonology
(2023)Based on internal reconstruction, this paper resolves a long-standing problem observed in Khroskyabs, a West Gyalrongic language (Sino-Tibetan), that seems to sporadically have lenited voiceless stops, resulting in irregular ... -
Variations étymologiques sur l'étymon sino-tibétain 'étau, pinces'
(2022)La racine originellement signifiant ‘étau, pinces’, se retrouve dans beaucoup de langues sino-tibétaines à travers l’Himalaya avec différents sens, y compris ‘dent/moliare’, ‘mâchoire’, ‘mâcher’ et ‘vulve, vagin’, outre ... -
Establishing Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP) normative data for young adults in Ireland: the impact of gender, speech task and recording conditions
(2023)Background: Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP) is currently recommended as a robust measure of dysphonia in clinical voice assessment (Patel et al., 2018). Its use in clinic is limited due to its relative conceptual ... -
Shaw, Á., & Yanushevskaya, I. (2021). Students' views and experiences of the training and use of phonetic transcription in speech and language therapy: the Irish perspective
(2021)Phonetic transcription is an essential skill for practising SLTs required during the assessment, diagnosis and management of clients with speech difficulties Student SLTs must receive appropriate training to carry out ... -
Making and agreeing to requests in Old Tibetan
(2023)The verbs གསོལ་ gsol ‘request’ and གནང་ gnaṅ ‘agree, grant', because of their complementary semantics and parallel syntax, provide a convenient window through which to caste light on the two forms of subordinate clauses ... -
A refutation of Song's (2014) explanation of the 'stop coda problem' in Old Chinese
(2016)Song (2014) draws renewed attention to the problem of groups of Chinese words in which the character used to write one of the words has a stop final reading in Middle Chinese but the character used to write another of the ... -
Tibetan *-as > -os
(2016)Both Jacques (2010) and Zeisler (2015) propose explanations for the synchronically unexpected past zos of the Tibetan verb 'eat'. After evaluating their proposals, this essay suggests that zos is the regular outcome of ... -
The Evidence for Chinese *-r
(2016)In 1989 Starostin proposed that Old Chinese had a final *-r that later changed to -n (and sometimes -j). Baxter & Sagart subsequently incorporated Starostin’s proposal in their 2014 Old Chinese reconstructions. This essay ... -
Word families, allofams, and the comparative method
(2019)Linguists researching the Trans-Himalayan family do not have a self-perception as working outside the mainstream of historical linguistics, but ‘word families’ and ‘allofams’ are important elements in their thinking despite ... -
Using Chinese Character Formation Graphs to Test Proposals in�Chinese Historical Phonology
(2020)This paper proposes the use of network techniques in the exploration of Old Chinese phonology as reflected in the phonophoric determinatives of xiéshēng 諧聲 characters. We use the approach to examine five specific proposals ... -
The prefix g- and -o- ablaut in Tibetan present verb stems
(2020)The prevailing internal reconstruction of the Classical Tibetan verbal system accounts for all ablaut phenomena as innovations triggered by erstwhile segmental affixes. The traditional account cannot be correct, because ... -
Two notes on Proto-Ersuic
(2022)This paper looks at the history of Tosu using 'forward reconstruction'. It concludes that Proto-Ersuic changed *-im to *-am already before its breakup as a unity, but the ‘brightening’ of *-a- to -i- took place independently ...
