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dc.contributor.advisorNí Chasaide, Ailbhe
dc.contributor.authorO'Reilly, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-01T15:41:52Z
dc.date.available2016-12-01T15:41:52Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationMaria O'Reilly, 'Sentence mode, alignment and focus in the intonation of Cois Fharraige, Inis Mór and Gaoth Dobhair Irish : a dual approach', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2014, pp 212
dc.identifier.otherTHESIS 10446
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/78157
dc.description.abstractThis work is devoted to the analysis of the intonation in three varieties of Irish: Gaoth Dobhair (Donegal within Ulster), and Cois Fharraige and Inis Mor (Connemara within Connaught). The experimental work is carried out at two levels of analysis. The melodic contours are described in terms of their tonal composition with the IViE annotation system, and the phonetic parameterisation is conducted by means of parallel contour-based and Fujisaki model measurements. The aims of this study are (1) to gain new insights into the intonation of two dialects of Irish with respect to cross-dialect and within-dialect variation, and (2) to assess the Fujisaki model for its suitability to perform analysis (and to some degree also synthesis) of the intonation of Irish dialects. With respect to aim (1), the work confirms an intonational divide between Ulster and the rest of the island and shows that the differences are not limited to the phonological level. The quantitative results indicate that the differences conveyed on the tonal level are further enhanced by concomitant phonetic effects in the melodic contour. Possible phonetic differences between the intonation of Cois Fharraige and Inis Mor were not found. However, the Inis Mor speakers were found to use a wider array of tunes than the Cois Fharraige speakers. In relation to aim (2), the Fujisaki model is shown to be adequate for the synthesis of f0 contours of Irish, and is found to perform better on the Gaoth Dobhair data compared to the data from Cois Fharraige and Inis Mor. Unfortunately, the model is not an equally promising analytical tool in the linguistic sense. Drawing meaning directly from the model’s amplitude parameters is made difficult because of the superposition of the phrase and accent components; the timing parameters of the model, however, are easily interpretable.
dc.format1 volume
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTrinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies
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dc.subjectApplied Linguistics, Ph.D.
dc.subjectPh.D. Trinity College Dublin
dc.titleSentence mode, alignment and focus in the intonation of Cois Fharraige, Inis Mór and Gaoth Dobhair Irish : a dual approach
dc.typethesis
dc.type.supercollectionthesis_dissertations
dc.type.supercollectionrefereed_publications
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoral
dc.type.qualificationnameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
dc.rights.ecaccessrightsopenAccess
dc.format.extentpaginationpp 212
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