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Several of our postgrads, at work in the postgrad space in the Berrick Saul building

Current postgraduate research students

Student Research Supervisor(s)
Jamie Adams The effect of pinyin and zhuyin tone diacritics on the perception and production of Mandarin tones by L1 English speakers
Rouaa Alatawi Sociolinguistic variation and change in the speech of Bedouin and urban in Saudi Arabian City "Tabuk"
Hajar Alenezy Vowel space areas across some Arabic dialects (Gulf dialects): Vowel Production and Perception study
Budur Alqarni First language attrition and second language acquisition: Exploring phonological, lexical and morphological aspects among Arabic-English and English-Arabic bilinguals
Mahmoud Alsabhi The production of emphatic fricatives in spoken Arabic dialects
Fadwa Alturki Exploring the impact of age of acquisition and exposure on phonological features in second dialect acquisition
Stuti Bhagat Grammatical Gender as a social index - a sociolinguistic study of Kurukh
Claudia Cojocaru Language attrition in multilingual foster children, international adoptees, and migrants: a mixed-methods approach
Shiyang Fu An investigation of extractions from coordination: Cases from ATB and asymmetric extraction
Ben Gibb-Reid Phonetic variation of discourse-pragmatic variables with an application for forensic voice comparison
Buhan Guo Prosodic disambiguation of Nesting vs. Sisterhood structures
Elliot Holmes Towards linguistically-informed automatic speaker recognition
Xinzi Hou Tone, inotation and their relationship in Nanning Madarin
Lu Jin Chinese
 Measure Phrases: Syntactic Analysis and Semantic Composition
 
Fani Karageorgou Structural constraints on memory retrieval
Alison Knight Phonetics of evasive responses during police interviews
Lirong Liang A study of surpass comparative and experiential aspect in Madarin Chinese
Malebogo Moji A conversation analysis approach to the study of doctor/nurse-patient interactions in Botswana is my title for now
Rosario Neyra Micro-analysis of live online workshops where adults learn a practical manual skill
Victoria Noble The Singulative: Comparative Syntax and Crosslinguistic Semantics
Kara Rancourt An analysis of the Chinese plural marker -men
Alice Richardson Interpreting in the Asylum Procedure
Kang Sun Disaffiliative status modulated by prosody in Mandarin Chinese
Heather Turner Language Attitudes in Baku, Azerbaijan
Ryoko Uetomi The role of prior languages in multilingual language acquisition: Mandarin as a third language in Japanese-English bilinguals
Samantha Williams

Linguistically informed design of non-native accent recognition system for forensic applications

Leila Yaqoub

A sociolinguistic study of the Rijal Alma dialect in Asir, Saudi Arabia: Production and perception

Liang Zhao

Production and perception of Mandarin dialect tone systems

Tiberius Hong 

The Interface of Syntax and Information Structure,  in a Diachronic Analysis of Classical Chinese'.

Emily Kiff

Quantifying anatomical variation in the vocal tract in typical and atypical speakers.

  • Amelia Gully
  • Paul Foulkes
Elizabeth Hopkins

Morphological inflection in early Middle English place-names

  • Ellie Rye
  • Claire Childs
Judith Candace Ahijah

A Sociolinguistic Study of Phonological Variation in Anlo-Ewe.

  • Carmen Llamas
Samar Yanallah J Alalnemr

Assessing AI Translation Tools Using the BLEU Score.

  • Eloisa Monteoliva Garcia.
  • Gustavo Gongora Goloubintseff.
  • Monika Schmid.
Xiaozhou Zhang

   Syntactic Peripheries in Mandarin: A Structural and Contextual Analysis

  • Norman Yeo
  • George Tsoulas
Luyang Zhou

 A multimodal conversation analysis of children's engagement in pediatric consultation

  • Kobin Kendrick
  • Merran Toerien
Elliot Benke

An Investigation into the Domain(s) of Syntactic Operations

  • Norman Yeo
Jinjin Lin

Automatic Speaker Recognition Study between Mandarin and Southern Min Dialect.

  • Vincent Hughes
  • Paul Foulkes