Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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The ABAIR Initiative: Bringing Spoken Irish into the Digital Space
(2017)The processes of language demise take hold when a language ceases to belong to the mainstream of life’s activities. Digital communication technology increasingly pervades all aspects of modern life. Languages not digitally ... -
Analysing Irish Prosody: a dual linguistic/quantitative approach
(2004)A project of Irish prosody is described which attempts to provide not only the basis for a linguistic description of the prosody of Irish dialects, but also the prerequisite quantitative characterization that is needed ... -
Analysis of intonation contours in portrayed emotions using the Fujisaki model
(2007)This paper presents an analysis of f0 contours in portrayed emotions, using the Fujisaki model. The focus is on quantifying the f0 differences among the six emotions investigated (surprised, bored, neutral, angry, happy, ... -
Arrah, like, you know: The dynamics of discourse marking in ICE-Ireland.
(2006)For over 400 years, dramatists, novelists, and other writers seeking to depict Irish characters have relied in part on words and phrases taken to be indexical of Irishness when representing the conversational functions ... -
An Audio-Visual Approach to Measuring Discourse Synchrony in Multimodal Conversation Data
(ISCA, 2009)This paper describes recent work on the automatic extraction of visual and audio parameters relating to the detection of synchrony in discourse, and to the modelling of active listening for advanced speech technology. ... -
Automatic parameterisation of the glottal waveform combining time and frequency domain measures
(2009)This paper describes a new technique for automatically parameterising the inverse filtered speech waveform by exploiting frequency domain measures and amplitude measures in the time domain. The technique is motivated by ... -
CEFR for Sign Languages: A1-B2
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Conducting Longitudinal Research Among Adult Refugees
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Creating an ongoing research capability in speech technology for two minority languages: experiences from the WISPR project
(2005)This paper reports on efforts to set up a research capability in speech technology for two minority languages (Welsh and Irish), where the focus is on ensuring that this capability will outlive the project that provided ... -
Cross-Dialect Irish Prosody: Linguistic Constraints on Fujisaki Modelling
(2008)We describe here our approach to quantifying cross-dialect differences in Irish Gaelic, using the Fujisaki model. The basic principle is that the way in which the modelling is carried out respects a parallel linguistic ... -
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across different signed languages
(2020)Do deaf signers of different signed languages do reference the same way? Here we compare how signers of five signed languages coordinate fully conventionalised forms (such as lexical manual signs, fingerspelling ... -
Cross-speaker variation in voice source correlates of focus and deaccentuation
(2017)This paper describes cross-speaker variation in the voice source correlates of focal accentuation and deaccentuation. A set of utterances with varied narrow focus placement as well as broad focus and deaccented renditions ... -
Deaf communities in Ireland and Finland: a comparative analysis
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Deaf Women of Ireland (1922-1994).
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Defining meaningful units. Challenges in sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping
(Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2021)This paper addresses the tasks of sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping in the con- text of sign language (SL) recognition. It aims to give an overview of the linguistic properties of SL, such as coarticulation and ... -
Development of a Moodle VLE Plug-in to Support Simultaneous Visualisation of a Collection of Multi-Media Sign Language Objects
(2010)Using Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) to support blended learning is very common in educational institutes. Delivering learning material in a flexible and semi-structured manner to the learner transforms such systems ...
