Browsing School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences by Title
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L-Vocalisation in Somerset
Traditional dialects in British English are undergoing a process of change, due in part to urbanisation, increased social mobility and language contact through population movement. Within British English there are several ... -
Language development in extra-territorial languages : terms of address in Colombian Spanish
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2012)This study investigates the use of terms of address in extra-territorial languages and determines how terms of address function in language to encode relationships. In addition, this study examines how the relationship ... -
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 ... -
Language learner autonomy: Myth, magic or miracle?
(2010)The shift in emphasis away from the processes involved in teaching languages towards the processes involved in learning languages in formal educational contexts has brought about one of the most remarkable changes to ... -
The language learning motivation of Chinese postgraduate students in Ireland: From the perspectives of Neo-Confucian learning philosophy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. Discipline of Clin Speech & Language Studies, 2018)This doctoral thesis investigates the English language motivation of Chinese students enrolled in one-year Master?s programmes at Trinity College Dublin, in Ireland. These students, from what can be described as a Confucian ... -
Language matters in the perception of affect from voice
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Language Resources of the Future (a speech-based position paper)
(2010)Current speech technology is well capable of processing the mappings between speech and text, but the challenge at the current time is to model the information flow in interactive speech, where propositional content is ... -
Language, Space, and Place
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Learner identity, motivation and autonomy in EFL pronunciation learning : development and evaluation of a pedagogical model
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)This thesis has three broad aims. Firstly, it sets out to explore the nature of the relationship between pronunciation and identity. Secondly, it aims to establish whether such a relationship can contribute to a model of ... -
Lenition alternation in West Gyalrongic and its implications for Southeast Asian panchronic phonology
(2023)Based on internal reconstruction, this paper resolves a long-standing problem observed in Khroskyabs, a West Gyalrongic language (Sino-Tibetan), that seems to sporadically have lenited voiceless stops, resulting in irregular ... -
Leveraging Phonetic and Speech Research for Irish Language Revitalisation and Maintenance
(2019)The ABAIR initiative illustrates how phonetic research can drive innovative applications that provide endangered-language communities with powerful tools and resources for language maintenance and revitalisation. ABAIR ... -
The LF Model in the Frequency Domain for Glottal Airflow Modelling without Aliasing Distortion
(2021)Many of the commonly used voice source models are based on piecewise elementary functions defined in the time domain. The discrete-time implementation of such models generally causes aliasing distortion, ... -
Linguistic Profile of Migrants
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A Linguistically Motivated Computational Framework for Irish Sign Language
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2019)This research is concerned with the development of a linguistically motivated computational framework for Irish Sign Language (ISL) and defining a lexicon architecture that is sufficiently universal and robust to accommodate ... -
Literacy challenges and early intervention for children using aided communication: Starting well
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The Lived Experiences of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia in Adults Living with Fibromyalgia
(2024)Background: Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition which has recently been linked with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties (dysphagia). However, to date, sample sizes within completed research are small and study ...
