Language Report Welsh

Influences of language contact and linguistic experience on the production of lexical stress in Welsh and Welsh English

This paper presents preliminary findings of an investigation into the realisation of lexical stress in monolingual and bilingual male adolescents from a community in West Wales. Monolingual speakers of Welsh English were compared with bilinguals from Welsh-speaking and English-speaking homes. This allowed us to explore the effects of language contact and individual linguistic experience on the ...

Language in Law: Using Coh-Metrix to Assess Differences between American and English/Welsh Language Varieties

To compare discourse differences in American and English/Welsh legal cases, we conducted a discriminant function analysis along five indices of cohesion on a specially constructed corpus. Our results suggest substantial differences, casting doubt on previous generalizations about British and American writing. Our results also offer guidance to developers of legal English textbooks and drafters ...

Text-to-speech synthesis for welsh and welsh English

English sounds that had no equivalent in Welsh (equivalences derived from [4]). These three segments were: / /, / /, and / /. Tables 1 and 2 show the South Welsh phonemes, with their equivalents in RP and the extra English segments. This work represents the first known attempt to develop a text-to-speech synthesiser for Welsh. A list of pseudo-Welsh nonsense words was generated, allowing for ce...

Welsh I am

With developments in genetics, researchers are increasingly able to address historical issues surrounding human migration and provenance by studying present populations. Nigel Williams reports on one of the latest studies looking at a crucial period of British history.

Welsh and Gender