Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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LUCIDE Toolkit: Learning New Languages
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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 ... -
Mapping Voice to Affect: Japanese listeners
(ISCA, 2006)This paper reports the results of perception tests administered to speakers of Japanese as part of a cross-language investigation of how voice quality and f0 combine in the signalling of affect. Three types of synthesised ... -
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 ... -
Measuring vocal fatigue in sports coaches
(2017)Objective: This study explores the immediate impact of prolonged voice use by professional sports coaches. Method: Speech samples including sustained phonation of vowel /a/ and a short read passage were collected from two ... -
Metaphor and space
(Trinity College Dublin, 2005)The present research study aims at providing an insight on the issue of metaphor and space conceptualization through the comparative analysis of Irish and Italian prepositions, based on the theoretical foundations of ... -
Modelling intonation in three Irish dialects
(2003)This paper provides a preliminary account of features of the intonation structure of three Irish dialects, Donegal (Ulster Irish), Mayo, and Aran Islands, using the IViE system [1, 2]. The sentence types examined were ... -
Multilingual Identities: A Study of Attitudes towards Multilingualism in Three European Cities
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Multilingualism in Dublin
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Multilingualism in Dublin: Home Language Use Among Primary School Children, Report on a Pilot Survey
(2010)Travellers who arrive at Dublin airport from abroad easily receive the impression that they have arrived in a bilingual country. However, whilst both English and Irish appear on official signage, the languages they ... -
Multilingualism in Dublin: LUCIDE City Report
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Multilingualism in Oslo: LUCIDE City Report
(The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2014) -
Multilingualism is Lived Here
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Nuclear accents in four Irish (Gaelic) dialects
(2007)In this paper the distribution of nuclear accents in declaratives of four major dialects of Irish is described. The findings show considerable variation, particular between northern and southern dialects. Speakers of ... -
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 ... -
On Triple Complementation in Southern Lazio dialects
(2017)Southern Italian dialects (SIDs) are traditionally claimed to use a dual finite complementiser system. In these varieties it is possible to distinguish between a complementiser derived from QUIA (>ca), which introduces ... -
Online and Kicking: Sign Language Activism via Social Media
(2019)Online activism in the Irish Deaf community demonstrates leveraging of multimodal linguistic repertories (as per Kusters et al 2017) ; it started as community-led work towards ISL recognition. Some fora are more ISL-led, ... -
Optimisation of the Largest Annotated Tibetan Corpus Combining Rule-based, Memory-based, and Deep-learning Methods
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021)This paper presents the new and improved version of the Annotated Corpus of Classical Tibetan (ACTib). These segmented and POS-tagged versions of all available texts in the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC) were ...