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Dr. Irena Yanushevskaya

Assistant Professor (C.L.C.S.)
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Dr. Irena Yanushevskaya

Assistant Professor (C.L.C.S.)
ARTS BUILDING

 yanushi@tcd.ie

 3531896 3316


I studied Germanic Philology and Translation Studies, English and French at St Petersburg State University, Russia, and obtained my PhD in Phonetics there in 2001. I worked in St Petersburg State University at the Department of Phonetics, Faculty of Philology for several years as a Lecturer in Phonetics. I completed another PhD in Trinity College Dublin, also in Phonetics, in 2010. I worked as a Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow in the Phonetics and Speech Laboratory, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, TCD, on a number of research projects (HUMAINE - Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion; Next Generation Localisation; FASTNET - Focus on Actions in Social Talk: Network-Enabling Technology; ABAIR). At the same time, I taught Phonetics and Instrumental Phonetics at the Discipline of Speech and Language Therapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Galway. I am currently an Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College Dublin.
  LINGUISTICS   Phonetics   SPEECH PROSODY   Voice   Voice quality
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External examiner for MSc in Speech and Language Sciences programme at University College London September 2024-present
Associate Editor for the 'Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics' journal (Taylor & Francis) September 2023-present
Member of the Board of Assessors for the Discipline of Speech and Language Therapy, University of Galway January 2024
Reviewer for international journals: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Phonetics, Speech Communication, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Journal of Communication Disorders, Frontiers in Communication, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, Language & Speech
Reviewer for international conferences: Speech Prosody, Interspeech, International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Fluent Medium Medium
Italian Fluent Medium Medium
Russian Fluent Fluent Fluent
Spanish Fluent Medium Medium
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International Phonetic Association 2003 present
International Association of Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics 2014 present
Irish Federation of University Teachers 2021 present
ISCA - International Speech Communication Association 2005 present
Irish Research Staff Association 2018 2023
Althagafi, A. and Yanushevskaya, I., The progression of phonetic transcription skills in a speech and language therapy training program [abstract], ICPLA 2025 [20th biennial conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association], Patras, Greece, June 25-27, 2025, 2025, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Yanushevskaya, I. & Kenny, C., Cepstral Peak Prominence: normative values for clinical voice assessment. A systematic review and meta-analysis, Journal of Voice, 2025, Journal Article, SUBMITTED
Althagafi, Anwar & Yanushevskaya, Irena, The progression of phonetic transcription skills in a speech and language therapy training program, ICPLA 2025, Patras, Greece, June 24-27, 2025, 2025, Poster, PRESENTED  TARA - Full Text
Yanushevskaya, I., O'Donnell, N., and O'Regan, S., Cepstral Peak Prominence in normophonic Irish-English speaking adults: the effect of gender, age, speech task segmental composition, recording conditions and CPP extraction method, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2024, p1-30 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
O'Donnell, N. & Yanushevskaya, I., Establishing Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP) normative data for young adults in Ireland: the impact of gender, speech task and recording conditions, ICPLA 2023, Salzburg, Austria, July 4-7, 2023, 2023, Conference Paper, PRESENTED  TARA - Full Text
O'Regan, S & Yanushevskaya, I., Cepstral peak prominence in normophonic adults: the effect of gender and speech task segmental composition, ICPhS, Prague, Czech Republic, August 7-11, 2023, 2023, pp1826 - 1830, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
O'Donnell, Niamh, Yanushevskaya, Irena, Establishing Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP) normative data for young adults in Ireland: the impact of gender, speech task and recording conditions, ICPLA 2023, Salzburg, Austria, July 4th-7th, 2023, 2023, pp1 , Poster, PRESENTED  TARA - Full Text
Murphy, A., Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A. and Gobl, C., Affect Expression: Global and Local Control of Voice Source Parameters, Speech Prosody, Lisbon, Portugal, 2022, pp1 - 5, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Yanushevskaya, I., Murphy, A., Gobl, C., Ní Chasaide, A., Global waveshape parameter Rd in signaling focal prominence: Perceptual salience in the absence of f0 variation, Frontiers in Communication, 2022, p1-23 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Murphy, A., Yanushevskaya, I., Ní Chasaide, A., Gobl, C., Integrating a voice analysis-synthesis system with a TTS framework for controlling affect and speaker identity, 2021 32nd Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC), Athlone, Ireland, 10-11 June 2021, 2021, pp1 - 6, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
  

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I am an expert phonetician. My research over the past decade has been concerned with the role of the voice source in speech communication, in particular voice source dynamics in the signalling of linguistic prosody (e.g., prominence, accentuation, deaccentuation) and in the signalling of emotion and affect. I have worked on the development of robust tools for voice analysis. I have a strong interest in clinical applications of phonetic sciences. Recently I have been working on collecting normative data for Cepstral Peak Prominence, a voice parameter currently suggested as a robust tool for clinical voice assessment. My research explores how speaker gender, age, speech task segmental composition, recording conditions and CPP extraction method affect CPP values.