Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Hands in Motion: Learning to Fingerspell in Irish Sign Language (ISL)
(2020)Irish Sign Language uses a one-handed alphabet in which each fingerspelled letter has a unique combination of handshape, orientation, and, in a few cases, path movement. Each letter is used to represent ... -
Hidden Histories: Deaf Lives Ireland
(Interesource Ltd, 2012)This important project represents the first structured opportunity to train Deaf community members as community archivists in the Republic of Ireland. It has successfully brought together a mixed group of Irish ... -
HIDDEN HISTORIES: Deaf Lives Ireland
(Interesource Group, 2012)A booklet issued on the Irish part of the European-wide project: Hidden Histories: Intercultural Dialogue and Learning - administered by Community Engagement Unit in the University of Sussex. This booklet accompanies the ... -
ICE on Food: Talk related to foodways in the International Corpus of English
(2015)The frequency of occurrence of food verbs across ICE corpora is remarkably consistent, though ICE-CN is remarkably lower Food verbs favour light verbs, with decreasing frequency accounted for by semantic features: manner ... -
Integrating a voice analysis-synthesis system with a TTS framework for controlling affect and speaker identity
(2021)This paper reports an experiment exploring how a voice analysis-synthesis system, GlórCáil, can be used to add expressiveness to the synthetic voice in text-to-speech (TTS) systems. This implementation focuses on the Irish ... -
The interaction of long-term voice quality with the realisation of focus
(2016)Voice quality shifts have been shown to be associated with the realisation of accent, focus and deaccentuation. Mostly, accented and focally accented syllables are reported to exhibit a tenser mode of phonation than the ... -
Intercultural encounters as hospitality. An interview with Richard Kearney
(2018)Richard Kearney is Charles B. Seelig Professor in Philosophy at Boston College. Among his many books, three titles in particular are representative of the themes discussed in this interview: Hosting the stranger ... -
Irish Sign Language
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Irish Sign Language: Ireland's Third Language
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)Deaf people are typically multilingual and use multimodal resources, i.e. sign, writing and speech, for communication in their everyday lives (Quinto-Pozos & Adam 2013). This is due to the fact that only 5% of all deaf ... -
Is There Poverty in the Deaf Community? Report on the interviews of randomly selected members of the Deaf Community in Dublin to determine the extent of poverty within the Community
(2002)This small-scale survey aims to establish and ascertain the relative poverty level of Deaf people. The concept of relative poverty as defined by the National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS) is as follows, people are living ... -
Keynote
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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 ...
