Centre for Language and Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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Text Recognition for Nepalese Manuscripts in Pracalit Script
(2022)This dataset is a model for handwritten text recognition (HTR) of Sanskrit and Newar Nepalese manuscripts in Pracalit script. This paper introduces the state of the field in Newar literature, Newar manuscripts, and HTR ... -
Prosodic Structure in Munster Irish
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2023)This thesis centres on prosody (rhythm, intonation, and prominence) in the Munster varieties of Irish (Gaelic). Munster Irish (MI) is distinct from other varieties of the language in having a complex, weight-sensitive ... -
A Question of Meaning: Motivation as a Meaning-Making Process for Late Adolescent Learners Engaged in Multilingual Language Learning
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2023)Although we have advanced our knowledge of language learning motivation, there are still many elements that have not been sufficiently considered. Within the existing research, there is a lack of perspectives that focus ... -
Contribution of the glottal flow residual in affect related voice transformation
(2022)This paper explores the contribution of the glottal flow residual in affect-related voice transformation. This signal, which is defined as the difference between the output of the inverse filter estimating the glottal flow ... -
Irish Sign Language
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Matrix complementizers in Italo-Romance
(John Benjamins, 2019)Based on uncharted evidence from Italo-Romance, we describe and discuss three types of matrix clauses, i.e. jussives, concessives and optatives, which reveal a certain degree of consistency but also display different ... -
Exploring the Prosody of Affective Speech
(2022)This paper introduces a research project on voice quality and affect expression. It explores affective prosody by investigating the relationship between voice source parameter changes and perceived affect. Firstly, it ... -
Global waveshape parameter Rd in signaling focal prominence: Perceptual salience in the absence of f0 variation
(2022)This paper explores perceptual salience of voice source parameter manipulation in signaling prominence in the absence of f0 variation. Synthetic stimuli were generated based on an inverse filtered all-voiced utterance “We ... -
Linguistic Profile of Migrants
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Accent Anxiety: An Exploration of Non-Native Accent as a Source of Speaking Anxiety among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Students
(2022)Speaking anxiety is a form of foreign language anxiety which may reduce students’ willingness to communicate orally. Despite accent being one of the most salient aspects of speech, there has been little research to date ... -
Can you mold, handle or portray it? Iconicity and metaphor in depiction strategies in co-speech gesture
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2022)The study explores iconicity and metaphor revealed in various gestural depiction strategies in co-speech representational gestures (Kendon, 2004; David McNeill, 1992). The gesture examples have been sourced from three ... -
Monolingual and Bilingual Narrative Production and Comprehension across Cultures
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2022)Children's narrative development has been argued as more dependent on age and much less on linguistic abilities and cultural backgrounds, which is also the case for bilingual children's narrative development across two ... -
The SIGTYP 2022 Shared Task on the Prediction of Cognate Reflexes
(2022)This study describes the structure and the results of the SIGTYP 2022 shared task on the prediction of cognate reflexes from multilingual wordlists. We asked participants to submit systems that would predict words in ... -
Criterial positions as diagnostics in Italo-Romance: some highs and lows
(2021)This paper argues that not all [C > XPTop/Foc > V] word orders in upper-southern Italo-Romance necessarily involve movement into the high left periphery. In at least some cases, XPTop/Foc can be shown to occupy the low ... -
AAC don Ghaeilge': A needs analysis survey for the development of Irish language augmentative communication devices for people with speech difficulties.'
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems, device development and research continues to emerge and develop, while all the time broadening to be more inclusive for those who utilise these systems to communicate ... -
Quantitative and Qualitive Analysis of Politeness and Gender Effects in Romantic Comedies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2022)This study investigates differences in markers of politeness between male and female characters in romantic comedies. While focusing on the gender of the speaker, the impact of the gender of the addressee and of the ... -
Growing up deaf in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 1997)The aim of this dissertation is to describe my own linguistic experience at school and by doing so provide a general understanding of the linguistic experience of Irish Deaf children during the period that oral education ... -
Accusative alignment in the Old Tibetan switch reference system
(2022)The use of ནས་ -nas to mark cross-clausal co-reference in Version I of the Old Tibetan Rāmāyaṇa reveals accusative alignment in Tibetan syntax, which in turn vindicates the notion of ‘subject’ applied to Tibetan.
