James Hoskin "Shifting the Burden: towards more robust and transparent procedures for LADO"
Rongkun Liu "The loss of MID in English"
Alnuri Fadhel "A sociolinguistic study of the Banū Yām dialect in the Najrān region, Southern Arabia"
Katharina Klug "Analysing voice quality as a component of forensic speaker comparison"
Yuxi Gong "On the second language acquisition of dou-quantification in Mandarin Chinese by L1-English and L1-Japanese speakers"
Aljawharah Alzamil "Intonational Variation Within and Between Spoken Dialects of Saudi Arabia"
Krestina Christensen "Understanding the acoustic implications of digital transmission on fricatives"
Yasir Almukhaizeem "The Role of Emotionality on the Organisation of English Abstract Words in the Lexicon "
Florence Oxley "Laterality and Babble: Does asymmetry in lip opening during babble indicate increasing left hemisphere dominance as babies gain articulatory experience?"
2022
Jing Hoi Lo "Issues of bilingualism in likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison"
Hannah Lurcuck "Affiliating and Disaffiliating with Complaints"
Sam Wells "Deriving complex verbs using Merge"
Xiao Wang "The effect of sampling variability on system performance and individual speakers’ behaviour in likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison"
Anna Rath Foley "The construction of meaning in advertising: A relevance theoretic approach"
Emanuela Buizza "The production and perception of reduced pronouns and auxiliaries in British English"
Umar Gombe Muhammad "A Comparative Phonological Analysis of Varieties of English Spoken by Native Speakers of Nigerian Languages (Hausa, Igbo, Kanuri and Yoruba) for the Determination of Speakers’ Origins"
Reihaneh Afshari Saleh "Pursuits in Collision: Affiliation, Disaffiliation, and Multimodality in Persian Interaction"
Shansan Lou "Early Phonological Development in Mandarin: An Analysis of Prosodic Structures, Segment and Tones from Babbling Through the Single-Word Period"
Latifa Alkuwaiz "Laryngeal Contrast and Phonetic Voicing: An Arabic Cross-dialectal Laboratory Phonology Approach"
2021
Mohammad Bani Younes "The Role of Intonation in the Disambiguation of Disjunctive Questions (Alternative Questions and Yes-no Questions)"
Ghada Alkuwaihes "A syntactic analysis of particle-based exclamatives in Gulf Arabic"
Obied Al-Aqlobi "Interconsonantal Intervals in Bisha Arabic and Makkah Arabic: New Insights from Variable Vowel Insertion"
Yu Wang "The Generic pronouns in Mandarin Chinese"
2020
Marina Noelia Cantarutti "(Dis)Association in English Interaction: the sequential and prosodic design of "social unitness"
Salina Cuddy "Language Variation in a Football Community"
Ying-Ju Chang "Aspects of Southern Min grammar in areal and typological perspectives"
Miyuki Kamiya "The Categorisation and Distribution of Japanese Mimetics: Japanese Mimetics as Prenominal Modifiers"
Chandeera Gunawardena "Object clitics and adverb placement in French second and third language acquisition"
2010s
Theses completed in the 2010s
2019
Wenling Cao "Accent attitude and its effect on non-native speaker's phonetic accommodation: The case of Hong Kong English"
Katherina Walper Gormaz "Non-Verbal Communication & Second Language Acquisition"
Sarah Kelly "Identifying the acoustic and prosodic parameters used by listeners to infer threat to harm from 'neutrally-worded' utterances"
Sehrish Shafi "A Phonological Analysis of English Loanwords in Mirpur Pahari: Exploring Variable Adaptation in Optimality Theory"
Moun Shin "A comparative study of honorific systems in North and South Korea: shifts since 1950"
James Tompkinson "An investigation into the acoustic properties of verbal threats"
Grace Wood "Accent Discrimination within the courtroom in regard to non-standard dialects and stigmatized communities in the US"
Aws Younus "The prosodic design of Iraqi Arabic political speeches"
2018
Margarita Makri "Typology of comparative constructions"
Veronica Gonzalez Temer "A multimodal analysis of assessment sequences in Chilean Spanish interaction"
Shadiya Al-Hashmi "Phonology of Arabic loanwords in Turkish"
YoungJae An "The syntax-semantics interface in second language acquisition: Crossover effects in wh-interrogatives"
Georgina Brown "Modelling pronunciation with distance: An automatic speaker comparison system for forensic applications"
Mariam Dar "Effects of development on cross-language speech perception"
Melody Pattison "Variation and Change in the Achterhoeks Dialect"
2017
Rachelle Lee "Language Ideologies in the Secondary School: Attitude and Identity in Bilingual Wales"
Dima Al-Malahmeh "The Influence of Parental Attitudes and the Presence of Domestic Helpers on the Acquisition of Arabic among Jordanian Children"
Ania Kubisz "Perception of Speaker Social-Indexical Information"
Saudi Sadiq "Dialect Convergence in Egypt: The impact of Cairene Arabic on Minia Arabic"
Swulam Alataiy "The Syntax of the Left Periphery in Arabic"
Zhishuang Chen "Mandarin Directional Serial Verb Constructions: A Constructionist Approach"
2016
Catherine Laing "Exploring the Role of Onomatopoeia in Phonological Development"
Parastou Marvasti "Early Morphological Acquisition in Bilingual Children"
Nathan Atkinson "Variable Factors in Voice and Content Identification in Forensic Contexts"
Jessica Wormald "Regional Variation in Punjabi English"
Aiqing Wang "The Syntax-Morphology Interface in Classical Chinese"
Anwar Aljadani "Arabic and English Learners’ Acquisition of the Narrow-Range Rules for the Dative Alternation in Arabic and English Languages"
Rebecca Woods "Representing the Addressee: Discourse Participants at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface"
Ella Jeffries "Children's Developing Awareness of Regional Accents"
Rashidah Albaqami "The Acquisition of English Prepositional Feature-Assembly by Arab EFL students: A Case Study of Saudi Students in Taif University, Saudi Arabia"
Kim Wilson "Current Practices in Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO): A Survey and Empirical Investigation"
2015
Katarzyna Alexander "Perception of the Boundary between Singleton and Geminate Plosives by Greek Cypriots"
Tom Devlin "Sociophonetic Variation, Orientation and Topic in County Durham"
Vince Hughes "The Definition of the Relevant Population and the Collection of Data for Likelihood Ratio-based Forensic Voice Comparison"
Helen West "Accent Levelling and Speaker Attitudes on the Merseyside/Lancashire Border: A Sociophonetic Study of Southport and Ormskirk"
Kim Witten "Sociolinguistic Variation and Enregisterment in an Online Community of Practice: A Case Study of MetaFilter.com"
Shaun Austin "Adolescent Identity, Style and Classroom Presentations: How Issues of Social Identity can Constrain Linguistic Style"
Man Ki Lee "Negative Wh-Quantifiers in Cantonese: A Proposed Neg-WhQ and Second Language Acquisitions of Neg-whQ"
Upsorn Tawilapakul "Denial and Counter-Expectation in Thai"
Elaine Sarah Lopez
"The Role of Explicit Instruction on Article Acquisition in L2 English"
2014
Ruwayshid Alruwaili "Second Language Acquisition of Aspect and Tense by Saudi Arabic Learners of English"
Natalie Fecher "Effects of Forensically-Relevant Facial Concealment on Speech Acoustics and Perception"
Erica Gold "Calculating Likelihood Ratios in Forensic Speaker Comparison Cases Using Phonetic and Linguistic Features"
Phil Harrison "Formant Measurement Errors from LPC based Analyses of Real and Synthetic Speech"
Lisa Roberts "A Forensic Phonetic Study of the Vocal Responses of Individuals in Distress"
2013
Ghazi Algethami "The Production of English Speech Rhythm by L2 Saudi Arabic Speakers"
Rana Almbark "Perception and Production of English Vowels by Syrian Arabic Speakers"
Nicholas Flynn "Levelling and Diffusion at the North/South Border: A Sociophonetic Study of Nottingham Speakers"
Maryam Gholizadeh "Scope Interpretation in First and Second Language Acquisition: Numeral and Existential Quantifiers and Negation"
Colleen Kavanagh "Acoustic Parameters of Consonant Segments for Forensic Speaker Comparison"
Richard Rhodes "Reliability of Non-Contemporaneous Forensic Speech Evidence"
Marta Szreder-Ptasinska "The Interaction of Articulatory and Cognitive Processes in Phonological Development"
Mariola Turek "Multiple Spell-Out Approach to Wh-Fronting"
2012
Sami Alresaini "Acquisition of Modern Standard Arabic by Speakers of Different Arabic Varieties"
2011
Antri Kanikli "The Syntax of Wh-Questions in Cypriot Greek and Its Consequences"
Rein Sikveland "Co-ordination of Speech and Gesture in Sequence and Time"
Norman Yeo "Unifying Optional Wh-Movement"
2010
Suzanne Bardeas "The Syntax of the Arabic Determiner Phrases"
Nanna Haug-Hilton "Regional Dialect Levelling and Language Standards: Changes in the Honesfoss Dialect"
Koji Kawahara "Gradability in the Theory of Grammar"
Daniel Redinger "Language Attitudes and Code-Switching Behaviour in a Multilingual Educational Context: The Case of Luxembourg"
2000s
Theses completed in the 2000s
2009
Marianna Kaimaki "Phonetic Resources and Interactional Function in English and Greek Conversation: Variation and Constraints"
Alan Hseih
"The Interpretation of Null and Overt Pronominal Objects in Native Chinese and English-Chinese Interlanguage"
2008
Nattama Pongpairoj "Variability in Second Language Article Production: A Comparison of L1 Thai and L1 French Learners of L2 English"
Hazel Richards "Mechanisms, Motivations and Outcomes of Change in Morley (Leeds) English"
2007
Shahela Hamid "The Study of Language Maintenance and Shift in the Sylheti Community in Leeds"
2006
Leendert Plug "Phonetic Reduction and Pragmatic Organisation in Dutch Conversation: A Usage-based Account"
Alexandra Galani "The Morphosyntax of Verbs in Modern Greek"
Rebecca Sinar "A History of English Reflexives: from Old English into Modern English"
Glyn Hicks "The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations"
2005
Melissa Wright "Studies of the Phonetics-Interaction Interface: Clicks and Interactional Structures in English Conversation"
Phillip Wallage "Negation in Early English: Parametric Variation and Grammatical Competition"
Donald Glenn Campbell "Co-constructing Competence: Turn Construction & repair in Novice-to-Novice Second Language Interaction"
2004
Joanne Close "English Auxiliaries: A Syntactic Study of Contraction And Variation"
Jonny Butler "Phase Structure, Phrase Structure and Quantification"
Gareth Walker "The Phonetic Design of Turn Endings, Beginnings and Continuations in Conversation"
Davita Morgan "Objects in Old English: Scrambled, Shifted or in situ?"
Haruko Ishikawa "A Minimalist Approach to Japanese Multiple Nominative Constructions"
Anil Biltoo "Language Maintenance and Language Shift in Mauritius"
2003
Evi Sifaki "EPP Satisfiers: Verb-initial Orders in Greek"
Paul Carter "Structured Variation in British English Liquids: the Role of Resonance"
Melody Clarke "Aspect and Polarity"
Srija Sinha "Extraction Domains and Information Partition in Hindi"
Joanna Channell "Vague Language: Some Vague Expressions in English"
Kit-ken Loke "A psycholinguistic study of shape features in Chinese (Mandarin) sortal classifiers"
1982
Kean Gibson "Tense and Aspect in Guyanese Creole: A Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis"
Jung Chang "An Examination of Aspects of Modern Theories and Practice of Foreign Language Teaching and Their Applicability to English Language Teaching in China"
1981
Shahin Owrang "A Linguistic Analysis of New Lexical Items in Persian"
Bello Salim "Linguistic Borrowing as External Evidence in Phonology: The Assimilation of English Loanwords in Hausa"
Margaret Maclure "Making Sense of Children's Talk: Structure and Strategy in Adult-child Conversation"
1980
Paul Meara "Syntactic Structure and Its Effects on Performance in a Second Language"
Jamal Abdulla "Some Aspects of Language Purism among Kurdish Speakers"
1970s
Theses completed in the 1970s
1979
Stephen Lubega "The effect of the nature and amount of exposure on language learning: a study based on the English language proficiency of students in six Ugandan schools."
Rama Kant Agnihotri "The processes of assimilation: a sociolinguistic study of Sikh children in Leeds."
Joan Russell "A sociolinguistic study of a Swahili-speaking community in Mombasa."
1978
Hubert Devonish "The selection and codification of a widely understood and publicly useable language variety in Guyana, to be used as a vehicle of national development."
R Gupta "A sociolinguistic study of the use of mixed Hindi-English in metropolitan Delhi."
1975
Walter Edwards "Sociolinguistic behaviour in rural and urban circumstances in Guyana."
Anne Baker "Parallel studies in first and second language acquisition in German."
1974
Eli Wesana-Chomi "Subordinate adverbial clauses in English and Swahili: a descriptive-comparative study."
Pushpakumara Premaratne "Some aspects of the Vanni dialect of Sinhalese as contrasted with the dialect of the western region of Sri Lanka."
1973
Ruth Mukama "A comparative analysis of some features of transitivity in Bantu languages with special reference to Kiswahili and Lugwere."
Kaluwachchimulle Mahanama Some aspects of Bhartrhari's linguistic theory as represented in the Vakyapadiya."
Colville Young "Belize Creole: a study of the Creolized English spoken in the city of Belize, in its cultural and social setting.
Nicolas Hawkes "The written English of Ghanaian primary six pupils in relation to their exposure to English as a medium of spoken instruction."
Adikary Abhayasinghe "A morphological study of Sinhalese."
1972
John Green "The reflexive-passive relationship in Spanish."
Vennelakanti Prakasam "A systematic treatment of certain aspects of Telugu phonology."
Donald Winford "A sociolinguistic description of two communities in Trinidad."
1971
Prajapati Sah "A generative semantic treatment of some aspects of English and Hindi grammar."
Elaine Wijasuriya "A sociolinguistic study of some speakers in a contact situation in Malaysia."
1970
Anil Sinha "Predicate complement constructions in Hindi and English."
1960s
Theses completed in the 1960s
1969
Jamal Abdulla "Diglossic bilingualism in Iraq."
Pauline Christie "A socio-linguistic study of some Dominican Creole-speakers."
1968
Hans Dua "The verbal piece in spoken Hindi: a morpho-syntactic study."
