Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Making Ireland"
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The ABAIR Initiative: Bringing Spoken Irish into the Digital Space
(2017)The processes of language demise take hold when a language ceases to belong to the mainstream of life’s activities. Digital communication technology increasingly pervades all aspects of modern life. Languages not digitally ... -
Deaf Women of Ireland (1922-1994).
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Dialect alignment signatures
(ISCA, 2006)This paper considers the hypothesis that dialects may have characteristic patterns in the alignment of the melodic contour with the segmental or syllabic tiers. Peak alignment was measured in initial prenuclear accented ... -
Irish Sign Language
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Irish Sign Language: Ireland's Third Language
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)Deaf people are typically multilingual and use multimodal resources, i.e. sign, writing and speech, for communication in their everyday lives (Quinto-Pozos & Adam 2013). This is due to the fact that only 5% of all deaf ... -
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 ... -
Language, Space, and Place
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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 ... -
Multilingualism in Dublin: LUCIDE City Report
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An Sc?ala?: autonomous learners harnessing speech and language technologies
(ISCA, 2019)This paper presents an autonomous language learning platform which has speech and language technology at its core. An Scealaí ('the Storyteller') is a web-based interactive iCALL system that allows learners to compose ... -
Sign Language Interpreting in Ireland
(Gallaudet University Press, 2024)This chapter documents the development of sign language interpreting (SLI) education and research in Ireland. In 1994, the first cohort of interpreters graduated with a Diploma in Irish Sign Language (ISL)/English Interpreting ... -
Speech Technology for Minority Languages: the Case of Irish (Gaelic)
(2006)Abstract?Unit selection is a data-driven approach to speech synthesis that concatenates pieces of recorded speech from a large database in order to create novel sentences. Many corpora are available in the English ... -
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 ...