Raya Kalaldeh
Contact Information
Email: kalalder@tcd.ie
Address: Phonetics & Speech Laboratory,
Centre for Language and Communication Studies,
Room 4074 Arts Building,
Trinity College Dublin,
College Green,
Dublin 2
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Research Interests
- Hiberno-English dialectology: Segmentals; Vowels & Consonants, Intonational Pattern
- Speech Prosody: Intonation labelling and modelling, peak alignment with the segmental string, intonation modelling for different utterance types
- Future work: Implementation features for focus (broad and narrow), Arabic intonation modelling
Current Projects
I'm currently working on the dialect of Drogheda English. Drogheda is the main town of the North East of the Republic and has the seventh largest population in Ireland which is increasingly growing economically, in population, and in numbers of commuters given its proximity to Dublin. By 1850, English in eastern Leinster became the first language for most people living within a thirty-mile radius of Dublin. Drogheda is 35 miles away from Dublin. The town is linguistically interesting as it lies in the boundary zone of two interesting linguistic and historical regions: Ulster English and Southern Hiberno English.