Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Tonal alignment in three varieties of Hiberno-English
(ISCA, 2009)This pilot study investigates the tonal alignment of pre-nuclear (PN) and nuclear (N) accents in three Hiberno-English (HE) regional varieties: Dublin, Drogheda, and Donegal English. The peak alignment is investigated ... -
TOWARDS BLENDED LEARNING FOR DEAF STUDIES AT THIRD LEVEL IN IRELAND
(2009)Irish Sign Language (ISL), an indigenous language of Ireland, is recognized by the EU as a natural language. It is a language separate from the other languages used in Ireland, including English, Irish, and, in Northern ... -
Transformation of LF parameters for speech synthesis of emotion: regression trees
(ISCA, 2008)This paper outlines an approach to modelling the dynamics of voice source parameters as observed in the analysis of emotional portrayals, by a male speaker of Hiberno-English. The emotions portrayed were happy, angry, ... -
Two notes on Proto-Ersuic
(2022)This paper looks at the history of Tosu using 'forward reconstruction'. It concludes that Proto-Ersuic changed *-im to *-am already before its breakup as a unity, but the ‘brightening’ of *-a- to -i- took place independently ... -
Universal and language-specific perception of affect from voice
(2011)This paper outlines the general results of a cross-language study of perception of affect from voice. The study aims to clarify how variations in voice quality (in synthesized stimuli) can evoke different affective coloring ... -
Using Chinese Character Formation Graphs to Test Proposals in Chinese Historical Phonology
(Brill, 2020)This paper proposes the use of network techniques in the exploration of Old Chinese phonology as reflected in the phonophoric determinatives of xiéshēng 諧聲 characters. We use the approach to examine five specific proposals ... -
Using listening journals to raise awareness of Global Englishes in ELT
(2014)With the increasing use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), it is no longer appropriate to associate English purely with ‘native-speaking’ nations, but with a global community of users. This article reports on the use of ... -
Using phonetic feature extraction to determine optimal speech regions for maximising the effectiveness of glottal source analysis
(2013)Parameterisation of the glottal source has become increasingly useful for speech technology. For many applications it may be desirable to restrict the glottal source feature data to only speech regions where it can be ... -
Variations étymologiques sur l'étymon sino-tibétain 'étau, pinces'
(2022)La racine originellement signifiant ‘étau, pinces’, se retrouve dans beaucoup de langues sino-tibétaines à travers l’Himalaya avec différents sens, y compris ‘dent/moliare’, ‘mâchoire’, ‘mâcher’ et ‘vulve, vagin’, outre ... -
Voice assessment practices of speech and language therapists in Ireland
(2019)Evidence supports the need for a multiparametric voice assessment incorporating objective and subjective assessment types. European guidelines and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association recommend a comprehensive ... -
Voice parameter dynamics in portrayed emotions
(Firenze University Press, 2009)This paper is concerned with voice source variation associated with different emotional portrayals of an utterance: bored, sad, happy, surprised, angry and neutral. The source analyses involved pulse-by-pulse inverse ... -
The voice prominence hypothesis: the interplay of F0 and voice source features in accentuation
(2013)This paper explores the interplay of source correlates of accentuation, examining a hypothesis (the Voice Prominence Hypothesis) that different source parameters are involved and may serve as equivalent. It predicts that ... -
Voice quality and f0 cues for affect expression: implications for synthesis
(2005)Synthesised stimuli were used to investigate how two notionally separable dimensions of tone-of-voice ? voice quality and fundamental frequency ? are involved in the expression of affect. Listeners were presented with ... -
Voice quality and f0 in prosody: towards a holistic account
(2004)This paper presents a discussion of the role of voice quality in prosody. Illustrations from past production and perception data by the authors indicate that source parameters other than f0 are an inherent part of ... -
Voice quality and loudness in affect perception
(2008)Different voice qualities tend to vary in terms of their intrinsic loudness. Perceptual experiments have shown that voice quality variation can be strongly associated with the affective colouring of an utterance. The ... -
Voice quality in affect cueing: does loudness matter?
(2013)In emotional speech research, it has been suggested that loudness, along with other prosodic features, may be an important cue in communicating high activation affects. In earlier studies, we found different voice quality ... -
Voice Quality Variation and the Perception of Affect: Continuous or Categorical?
(2003)This paper explores the mapping of voice quality to affect, for a synthesised tense ? lax voice continuum. Two questions are of interest. Firstly, over such a continuum, do listeners? attributions of affect change in a ... -
Voice source dynamics in intonation
(2011)A qualitative analysis of voice source dynamics is presented for utterances varying in focal place- ment, with falling (F) and rising (R) pitch. Source parameters, F0, EE, UP, RG, OQ and RD were obtained by manual ... -
Voice-to-affect mapping: Inferences on language voice baseline settings
(2017)Modulations of the voice convey affect, and the precise mapping of voice-to-affect may vary for different languages. However, affect-related modulations occur relative to the baseline affect-neutral voice, which tends to ...