Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Deaf communities in Ireland and Finland: a comparative analysis
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Deaf Women of Ireland (1922-1994).
(CDS/SLSCS Monograph No. 4, 2018) -
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 ... -
Dialect alignment signatures
(ISCA, 2006)This paper considers the hypothesis that dialects may have characteristic patterns in the alignment of the melodic contour with the segmental or syllabic tiers. Peak alignment was measured in initial prenuclear accented ... -
Digital Deployment of the Signs of Ireland Corpus in Elearning
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A discourse analytic framework for conversational engagement in online discussion tasks.
(2014)This paper reports on a long-running telecollaborative exchange between a German and an Irish university. On the Irish side, the exchange is embedded within a course in intercultural communication offered to final-year ... -
A discourse-analytic framework for conversational engagement in online discussion tasks, part 2: level of analytic depth
(2015)What do we mean by “engagement” in the context of online discussions? How do we recognise it? Is it quantifiable? Can we find ways of analysing it that might be of assistance to task designers, instructors, and students? This ... -
The Envoys of Phywa to Dmu (PT 126)
(2021)New are the texts which offer a glimpse into Tibet’s religious traditions as they existed before the adoption of Buddhism as the state religion in 762. With the exception of stone inscriptions the earliest extant ... -
Evaluation of the Signing Information Mid-West Project
(PAUL Partnership, Limerick, 2008)This report centres on the review of the Irish Sign Language/English interpreting services provided in the Mid-West via the “Signing Information Mid-West” service. This was established under the aegis of Enhancing Disability ... -
Gender in Irish between continuity and change
(2011)The gender system of Irish appears to have undergone a process of simplification: traditionally depending on both formal and semantic assignment rules, agreement in contemporary spoken Irish is still rather conservative ... -
GlóRí - the Glottal Research Instrument
(2014)This papers presents GlóRí - the glottal research instrument. GlóRí is a speech analysis interface which offers a flexibility and multiplicity of approaches to voice analysis. The system allows for fully automatic ... -
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 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 ...
