Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication
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The process of authentication as an appropriation of knowledge through reflection. A diary study on the analysis of print advertisements
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2008)Authentic materials have long been regarded as a precious source of linguistic input in L2 pedagogy but they have been made the object of a long-term (and on-going) debate starting from the inception of the Communicative ... -
A relevance theoretic analysis of contrast connectives in Spanish : pero and aunque
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2008)This thesis presents a pragmatic analysis of a number of contrast connectives in Spanish, in particular pero ‘but’ and aunque ‘although’. The study follows the theoretical framework of Relevance Theory (RT). The ideas put ... -
Towards a discipline of implicational linguistics : evidence from Korean learners of English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2008)A wealth of new models related to language and language teaching/learning have been introduced of late, but despite the fact that these models have much to offer a more complete view of language, they have yet to be ... -
The phonetics and phonology of the intonation of Irish dialects
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2008)This study is concerned with describing the intonation of the major dialects of Irish, comprising the Donegal dialect of Gaoth Dobhair, the Connaught dialects of Cois Fhairrge, Inis Oírr and Mayo, and the Munster dialect ... -
An investigation into the proficiency of successful late learners of French
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)The introduction to tiiis thesis provides a background for the study as well as the reasons behind the choice of subject. In the second chapter of the thesis there is a review of the literature on the Critical Period ... -
The spoken Irish of sixth-class pupils in Irish immersion schools
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)The aim of the present study is to investigate the acquisition of Irish by sixth-class pupils in all-Irish primary schools, with a particular focus on the features of their spoken Irish. Although there is a long historical ... -
An investigation of the relationship between the development of bilingual semantic organisation and interactive connectivity across languages
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)This thesis explores the eorrelation between second language (L2) semantic development and interactive semantic connectivity across languages. Given that bilinguals’ lexical access is language-non-selective at the initial ... -
Konglish : Cross-linguistic lexical issues for Korean learners of English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)The present study investigated ow the mental lexicon of Korean learners of English is organized, and, in particular, how resources required to comprehend and produce English are stored and accessed in their mental lexicon ... -
The common European framework and the European language portfolio in Taiwan's third-level English language education : a longitudinal empirical evaluation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)This thesis is a longitudinal examination of how the introduction of the Council of Europe’s European Language Portfolio (ELP) has affected English language learning and teaching in a third-level institute in Taiwan. It ... -
English language support for migrant students in Irish post-primary schools : an exploration of policy & practice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2010)This thesis presents an empirical exploration of language support for English as a Second Language (ESL) students in Irish post-primary schools. The presence of large numbers of ESL students can be attributed to the ... -
Multi-dialect phonetisation for Irish text-to-speech synthesis : a modular approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2010)This thesis describes the development of a modular multi-dialect phonetiser for the Irish language. Phonetisation (or grapheme-to-phoneme conversion), the process in which ordinary text is converted into a transcription ... -
Finnish and Irish Sign Languages: an egalitarian analysis of language policies and their effects
(UCD, 2010)This study aimed to advance academic understanding of what equality of condition (Baker, et al., 2004) would mean for Deaf people about recognising signed language in both education and access to information in particular. ... -
Vocal correlates of affective states
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2010)This thesis explores the mapping of voice quality to affect. Three studies have been conducted. The principal study of this thesis is a cross-language study, aimed at clarifying how variations in voice quality (in synthesised ... -
The relationship between phonological short-term memory and the development of L2 vocabulary and collocational knowledge : a longitudinal study of adult Polish learners of English at A2 and B1 levels of English proficiency
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2010)The present study examines the relationship between individual differences in Phonological Short-term Memory (PSTM) and L2 vocabulary/collocation learning in adult L2 learners in a longitudinal classroom-based study at the ... -
Investigating the adoption of a university virtual learning environment : an Activity Theoretic analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)Recent literature in e-leaming research and computer-assisted language learning (CALL) asserts that technologies are under-used in higher education. There has been specific criticism in e-learning research of the virtual ... -
Gender in Insular Celtic : a functionalist account of variation and change in Irish and Welsh
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)In this study, I investigate linguistic variation and change in a situation of language contact and obsolescence; specifically, I look at grammatical gender in Insular Celtic. The analysis of this linguistic phenomenon is ... -
First language attrition and second language acquisition in a second language environment
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)This thesis is concerned with the outcomes of the parallel processes of first language maintenance and second language acquisition in adult bilinguals resident in a second language environment. Current perspectives on first ... -
Segmental and intonational analysis of Drogheda English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)This study is concerned with describing the variety of English used in Drogheda, the main town in the North-East of Ireland. The town of Drogheda is approximately 35 miles away from the capital city, Dublin. It also lies ... -
Temporal expressions in Italian : a relevance-theoretic account
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)In this thesis we aim to give an inferential account of the Italian temporal expressions allora 'then', ora 'now', adesso 'now', ancora 'still', gia 'already', sempre 'always', poi 'then, also', and mentre 'while'. The ... -
The effect of cross-language phonetic similarity perception on second language speech learning : the case of Polish migrant children and adults in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)The main goal of this thesis was to gain a better understanding of age- related differences in second language speech learning. Specifically, it was of interest in the present study to explore whether child learners of a ...