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Can you mold, handle or portray it? Iconicity and metaphor in depiction strategies in co-speech gesture
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2022)The study explores iconicity and metaphor revealed in various gestural depiction strategies in co-speech representational gestures (Kendon, 2004; David McNeill, 1992). The gesture examples have been sourced from three ... -
Case Studies of English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education: Business Programmes in China, Japan and the Netherlands
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Case Studies of English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education: Business Programmes in China, Japan and the Netherlands
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2019)This doctoral project aims to conduct case studies of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) at three higher education institutions (HEIs) in China, Japan and the Netherlands – three ‘Expanding Circle’ countries. The ... -
CEFR for Sign Languages: A1-B2
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Chinese Transcription of Buddhist Terms in the Late H?n Dynasty
(Ubiquity Press, Ltd., 2023)This dataset is a compilation of Chinese transcriptions of Buddhist terms produced by translators from the late Hàn period. It is a compilation of the previous works of Coblin (1983), Karashima (2010), Vetter (2012), Hill, ... -
Clinical applications of speech synthesis
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Clinical Examination in Speech and Language Therapy Education: Student Perspectives
(2020)Abstract Introduction & Aims: The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) has an established history of assessing clinical competence for medical and allied health care professionals. No research ... -
Code-switching among Greek speakers in Ireland with emphasis on politeness
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2019)Code-switching (also referred to as CS) is undoubtedly a well-researched area of sociolinguistics and is an integral part of bi/multilinguals' speech. Among other reasons, CS also takes place for politeness purposes, and ... -
Communication difficulties in adults with Intellectual Disability: Results from a national cross-sectional study
(2020)Background: People with an intellectual disability (ID) are vulnerable to communication impairments, with consequences for employment, education, and social participation. Aims: To identify the communication skills ... -
Communication Partner Training for the Primary Caregivers of People with Aphasia in India: A multi-phase exploratory study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. Discipline of Clin Speech & Language Studies, 2022)Aphasia, as an acquired communication disability, has an impact beyond the language impairment, affecting life participation and quality of life. Communication Partner Training (CPT) is an evidence-based intervention which ... -
Comparison of time and frequency domain measures of the voice source
(2019)Voice source modulation is of fundamental importance in speech communication. Many parameters have been proposed to capture the characteristics of the voice, but it is not always clear how the different kinds of parameters ... -
Composing the L2-M2 Self: A Grounded Theory Study on the Concerns of Adult Irish Sign Language Learners
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2019)Language learning in a classroom setting raises challenges for learners, regardless of modality. In addition to learning a second or subsequent language (L2), in this study, participants are also learning through a new ... -
Computer-Assisted Language Comparison: State of the Art
(Ubiquity Press, Ltd., 2020)Historical language comparison opens windows onto a human past, long before the availability of written records. Since traditional language comparison within the framework of the comparative method is largely based on ... -
Conducting Longitudinal Research Among Adult Refugees
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Constructing narratives to describe video events using aided communication
(2018)Narratives are a pervasive form of discourse and a rich source for exploring a range of language and cognitive skills. The limited research base to date suggests that narratives generated using aided communication may be ... -
Contribution of the glottal flow residual in affect related voice transformation
(2022)This paper explores the contribution of the glottal flow residual in affect-related voice transformation. This signal, which is defined as the difference between the output of the inverse filter estimating the glottal flow ...