DPhil/PhD Theses completed in the department

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"

2002

• Cécile De Cat
  "French dislocation"
• Luanga Kasanga
  "Task Type, Interaction and Second Language Acquisition. A study of Oral Productions by Zairean EFL Students"
• Alastair Butler
  "Control and Exhaustification"

2001

• Elizabeth McCoy
  "Tenseless Clauses, AspP and Subject Case-Licensing"

2000

• Helen Lawrence
  "Aspects of English: An Examination of Aspect within Past Temporal Reference in Northern British English"
• Zhongping Zhu
  "Null Arguments in Child Language"
• Jennifer Smith
  "Synchrony and Diachrony in the Evolution of English: Evidence from Scotland"

• Stephen Minnis
  "The Prediction of Prosodic Structure from Written Text: Revisited, Reformulated, Re-evaluated"

1990s

Theses completed in the 1990s

1997

• Zara Iles
  "Repair Work: Attending to Talk Adequacy in One-to-One EFL Classroom Talk"

1996

• Stephen Nicolle
  "Conceptual and Procedural Encoding in Relevance Theory: A Study with Reference to English and Kiswahili"
• Paul Rowlett
  "Negative Configurations in French"

1995

• Richard Ogden
  "An Exploration of Phonetic Exponency in Firthian Prosodic Analysis: Form and Substance in Finnish Phonology"
• Mukul Saxena
  "A Sociolinguistic Study of Panjabi Hindus in Southall: Language Maintenance and Shift"
• Guobin Wu
  "A Discourse Structural Approach to Anaphora in Chinese"

1994

• Hilary Gardner
  "Doing Talk about Speech: A Study of Speech/Language Therapists and Phonologically Disordered Children Working Together"

1993

• Shailjanand Jha
  "Language Maintenance and Bilingualism in Darbhanga"

• Joga Singh
  "Case and Agreement in Hindi: A GB Approach"

• Clare Tarplee
  "Working on Talk: The Collaborative Shaping of Linguistic Skills within Child-Adult Interaction"

1992

• Amaya Mendikoetxea Pelayo
  "On the Nature of Agreement: The Syntax of ARB SE"
• Adrian Simpson
  "Writing Phonological Statements from Naturally Occurring Talk: An Experiment in Method"

1991

• John Coleman
  "Phonological Representations - Their Names, Forms and Powers"
• Joel Fagborun
  "An Analysis of Linguistic Innovation: Historical and Grammatical Perspectives on English Loan-Translations and the Yoruba Koine"

1990

• John Foster
  "A Theory of Word Order in Categorical Grammar with Special Reference to Spanish"
• Julie Bradshaw
  "Rewordings in Dyadic Language Teaching: A study of Lexis. 2vol"
• Anthea Gupta
  "A Study of the Acquisition and Use of Interrogatives and Questions in the English of Pre-school Chinese Singaporeans. 2 vols"
• Hermas Mwansoko
  "The Modernization of Swahili Technical Terminologies: An Investigation of the Linguistics and Literature Terminologies"
• Lengo Nsakala
  "Errors in the Speech of Zairean Students of English: With Special Reference to Rate and Lexical Diversity"

1980s

Theses completed in the 1980s

1989

• Edward Elderkin
  "The Significance and Origin of the Use of Pitch in Sandawe"

1988

• William Wells
  "Focus in Spoken English"
• Yang Han
  "A Pragmatic Study of Some Sentence-final and Post-verbal Particles in Mandarin Chinese"
• Kang Kwong Luke
  "A Conversation Analytic Approach to the Study of Utterance Particles in Cantonese"

• Jotham Kamanyire
  "Intonation and Tone in Two Bantu Languages of Uganda"

1987

• Alison Wray
  "Focusing: a Dual Systems Account for the Apparent Hemispheric Lateralisation of Language"
• Mary Spann
  "Code-Switching amongst Bilingual (Punjabi-English) Nursery School Children: Co-operation and Conflict in Relation to Familiarity"
• Samuel Obeng
  "Conversational Strategies: Towards a Phonological Description of Projection in Akyem-Twi"
• Theresa Chisanga
  "An Investigation into the Form and Function of Educated English in Zambia as a Possible Indigenized Non-native Variety"

1985

• Kasefu Kazadi-Mukenge
  "An Investigation of Code-mixing: Exemplified from Swahili and French"
• Abdulmunim Al-Nasser
  "Sibawayh the Phonologist"

1984

• Kabuya Nkulu
  "Alternative Grammatical Analyses of Zairean Copperbelt Swahili: Some Refutations and Phrase Structure Proposals"
• Pat Ndukwe
  "Planning for Standard Varieties in Two Nigerian Languages"
• Latilla Woodburn
  "The Communicative Function of Humour: A Study of Smiling and Laughter in the Pre-verbal Child"

1983

• Michael Lumsden
  "Syntactic and Semantic Properties of Existential Sentences"
• Terence McKay
  "Infinitival Complements in German: lassen, scheinen and the Verbs of Perception"
• Mark Sebba
  "The Syntax of Serial Verbs"
• 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."