Máire Ní Chiosáin

Emeritus Associate Professor (RTA)

School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

  • Emeritus Associate Professor (RTA)
    School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
  • 01 716 8215
  • University College Dublin, School of Languages Cultures and Linguistics, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Research interests: Phonology Phonetics Irish/Celtic phonology/phonetics Language transition Research projects: An ultrasound investigation of Irish palatalisation and velarisation (collaborative research with Jaye Padgett & Grant McGuire, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Ryan Bennett, Yale University); Supported by National Science Foundation, USA, 2014-6 Perception of palatalisation in Irish and Russian (with Jaye Padgett, UC Santa Cruz) Realisation of secondary contrasts in Irish (with Jaye Padgett, UC Santa Cruz) Irish and Scottish Gaelic short vowels and issues of phonemicisation (with Pavel Iosad, University of Edinburgh) Perception of syllables in Irish (with Pauline Welby, CNRS/University de Provence, Aix-en-Provence) Production and perception of initial consonant mutations in Irish (with Pauline Welby, CNRS/Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence & Brian O Raghallaigh, Dublin City University) Language shift in early 20th century Ireland

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    The production and perception of Irish initial mutations
    Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Irchss)1 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2010
    People funded by this grant:
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