Browsing by Subject "Irish"
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Controlling the voice quality dimension of prosody in synthetic speech using an acoustic glottal model
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2021)Statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) offers a means of generating synthetic speech without the need for complex and extensive rules. One way in which this approach is sometimes lacking is through the use of simple ... -
Converging and diverging stances on target varieties in collateral languages: The ideologies of linguistic variation in Irish and Manx Gaelic
(2018)This article will argue that language revival movements, particularly those founded in the ethno-nationalist era of the late 19thand early 20thcenturies, retain founding overt beliefs rooted in an ideological commitment ... -
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 ... -
A History and Phonological Study of the Native Modern Irish of Co. Wexford
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Irish, 2022)This thesis uses historical and placename evidence to better understand the displacement of native Irish from Co. Wexford, from the introduction of Norse in the 9th century, to the many stages of introduction of English ... -
An investigation of the remscéla Tána Bó Cúailgne and an edition and translation of Aislinge Óenguso with textual notes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Irish, 2018)This thesis is presented in two parts. Part 1 is a study of the application of the term remscél prefatory tale to Early Irish literature, specifically to those tales associated with the Táin Bó Cúailnge (TBC), and the ... -
Irish women in business, 1850-1922: navigating the credit economy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)Irish Women in Business, 1850-1922: navigating the credit economy Antonia Florence Madeleine Jamesie Hart 90408373 Abstract Irish women owned and managed businesses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, ... -
Language ideologies in a minority context: An experimental study of teachers? responses to variation in Irish
(2021)Ideologies on linguistic variation among teachers of the Irish language are the focus of this article. Participants completed an experiment in which they responded to speech samples representing traditional dialectal ... -
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 ... -
Linguistic Elitism: the Advantage of Speaking Irish Rather than the Irish-speaker Advantage
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)This paper contributes to the discussion of linguistic elitism in this journal (Borooah et al., 2009). Two main questions are addressed. First, most “census Irish speakers” are not in fact Irish speakers and the majority ... -
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 ... -
Wug-testing phonetic prominence in Munster Irish
(2021)8 speakers of Munster Irish were presented with a series of disyllabic nonwords and directed to read them aloud in a carrier phrase. Each nonword corresponded to a different pairing of syllable weights (e.g. light-heavy, ...
