Northern Welsh

Intonational signalling of sentence type in Northern Welsh

This paper examines the effect of sentence type on the scaling and alignment of pitch peaks in Anglesey Welsh. The analysis considered a corpus of speech from six Welsh-English bilingual speakers. The sentence types considered for analysis were statements, yes-no questions, wh-questions and declarative questions. It was found that across speakers the pitch peaks were scaled higher in questions ...

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

Negative Entropy of Welsh