Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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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 ... -
Simeon Floyd, Elisabeth Norcliffe, and Lila San Roque: Egophoricity
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Some Perspectives of Language Learners and Teachers on the Short Course in Chinese Language and Culture
(CLCS, Trinity College Dublin for the Post-Primary Languages Initiative, 2019)The Chinese Language and Culture short course is experienced by this sample of Junior Cycle students as an enjoyable, useful and engaging programme. Students demonstrated high language learning motivation towards Chinese, ... -
Speech Technology for Minority Languages: the Case of Irish (Gaelic)
(2006)Abstract?Unit selection is a data-driven approach to speech synthesis that concatenates pieces of recorded speech from a large database in order to create novel sentences. Many corpora are available in the English ... -
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 a practising speech and language therapist (SLT) required during the assessment, diagnosis and management of clients with speech difficulties. It is vital that appropriate ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Three Leaps of Faith and Four Giant Steps: Developing Interpreter Training in Ireland
(2008)This chapter documents the relatively recent introduction and development of interpreter training in Ireland. The first interpreters graduated with a Diploma in ISL/English Interpreting in 1994, and interpreter training ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Time- and amplitude-based voice source correlates of emotional portrayals
(Springer, 2007)A detailed analysis of glottal source parameters is presented for emotional portrayals which included both low and high activation states: neutral, bored, sad, and happy, surprised, angry. Time- and amplitude-based glottal ... -
Tonal alignment in three varieties of Hiberno-English
(ISCA, 2009)This pilot study investigates the tonal alignment of pre-nuclear (PN) and nuclear (N) accents in three Hiberno-English (HE) regional varieties: Dublin, Drogheda, and Donegal English. The peak alignment is investigated ... -
TOWARDS BLENDED LEARNING FOR DEAF STUDIES AT THIRD LEVEL IN IRELAND
(2009)Irish Sign Language (ISL), an indigenous language of Ireland, is recognized by the EU as a natural language. It is a language separate from the other languages used in Ireland, including English, Irish, and, in Northern ... -
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, ...