Recent dissertation topics
A small sample of recent dissertation topics, broken down by subject:
Phonetics and Phonology
- Perceptual Acquisition of Korean Fortition by Native Thai Learners
- Variation in Voice Onset Time (VOT) on the Scottish and English Border: An Analysis of Conversational Data
- Clicks in Chilean Spanish Conversation
- The perception of phonological variation in the York vowel system
- Luxembourgish-Speakers' Attitude toward Luxembourgish Dialects
- The acquisition of geminates in Japanese
- The sensitivity of the distinction between English restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses for Chinese L2 learners
- Production and perception of Smiling Voice
- Evidential verb forms in Bulgarian
- Negative Polarity Items in Mandarin Chinese
- The extent of phonetic interference from Polish in English spoken by the Polish migrants living in Doncaster
- [r] production by Iraqi Arabic speakers
- The intonation of Punjabi English
- Variability of formant measurements
- Quality-sensitive accent in Tokyo Japanese
- Coordination of phonetic and visual resources in talk-in-interaction: A study of reported speech
- Interlanguage syllable structure: Analysing vowel epenthesis produced by native Japanese speakers
- A study on voice onset time of Thai stop consonants produced by native Thai speakers living in the UK
Phonological Development in Childhood
- The acquisition of geminates in Japanese
- An assessment of standardised and spontaneous language measures in late talkers
- The role of pre-linguistic phonetic knowledge in lexical and phonological advance
- Exploring the role of systematization in phonological development: A dynamic systems perspective
- American vs. British infant-directed speech: Cultural differences and developmental consequences
- Phonological memory and langage development in late talkers: Does phonological memory provide a key link between early phonological and lexical development?
Psycholinguistics
- Duration as an Implicit Prosody Factor in Syntactic Disambiguation of Relative and Complement Clauses
- Investigating the Dual-route Model of Written Production in Relation to Phonological Priming and Word Frequency
- Syntactic Structure and Working Memory
- The sensitivity of the distinction between English restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses for Chinese L2 learners
- The acquisition of 'any' by Polish speakers learners of English: how the knowledge changes with proficiency
- An assessment of standardised and spontaneous language measures in late talkers
- Subjacency violations in second language acquisition: some evidence from Chinese Mandarin speakers of L2 English
- L1 phonological transfer of Korean microprosody to L2 English
- L2 acquisition of English binding anaphora by adult learners bilingual in Cantonese and Korean
- Who did you ask me what to judge for? – The syntactic processing deficit in dyslexia and its impact on language performance
- L1 transfer effects on native English speakers learning Modern Standard Arabic relative clauses
- Preservation of syntax in Alzheimer's
- Dative alternation and its acquisition by German-English bilingual and English monolingual children
Sociolinguistics
- Investigating the Role of Social Ideology, Language Ideology, Familiarity and Pronoun Type on Language Attitudes Towards Gender Neutral Pronouns in the UK
- The Only Way is Essex: a case study exploring what 'constructed reality' television programmes are doing for attitudes towards and awareness of different varieties of English in the United Kingdom
- The perception of phonological variation in the York vowel system
- Luxembourgish-Speakers' Attitude toward Luxembourgish Dialects
- Language Choice and Language Use in Computer Mediated Communication: Code Switching and Script Switching in Libyan Arabic
- Attitudes, Exposure, and the English Pronunciation of Dutch Learners
- A regional comparison of listener perception of speaker ethnicity via the non-verbal communication of laughter
- The current social status of T-glottalling in York English
- Codeswitching between Mandarin and Southern Min Dialect in political discourse in Taiwan
- A study of mid-vowels in a Lorraine village
- The variation in Early Modern English third person singular verbal inflection
- An analysis of non-standard periphrastic 'do' in Somerset English
- Language attitudes in twenty-first century Wales
- Gender in the community of practice 'University Caving Club': Phonological variation
- The witch [i:z] watch [it] - variable tense unstressed vewels in Stoke-on-Trent
- "Biasa jua tu orang Brunei they always say catu": Formal aspects of Brunei Malay-English language alternation in informal conversations between Bruneian students
Syntax and Semantics
- Evidential verb forms in Bulgarian
- Negative Polarity Items in Mandarin Chinese
- The Tok Pisin noun phrase
- Towards an investigation of socially-conditioned semantic variation
- Definite article reduction in a religious community of practice
- The definiteness effect in Chinese 'you'-existential constructions: A corpus based study
- Topics and pronouns in the clausal left periphery in Old English
- Scalar implicatures in polar (yes/no) questions
- Quantification, alternative semantics and phases
- The syntax and semantics of V2 – 'weil' in German
- An analysis of Chinese quantifiers 'ge', 'dou' and 'quan' and their co-occurrence
- Distribution and licensing condititions of Negative Polarity Items in Mandarin Chinese
- The NP/DP Distinction in Slavic: A comparative approach
- A complex predicational analysis of the 'ba'-construction in Mandarin Chinese
- Two types of raising in Korean
- Serial verb constructions in Mandarin Chinese
- From Turncoats to Backstabbers: How headedness and word order determine the productivity of agentive and instrumental compounding in English
Forensic Phonetics
- An Investigation into the Perceived Similarity of the Speech of Identical Twins and Same Sex Siblings
- Detecting Authenticity of Audio Files Compressed by Social Media Platforms
- Investigating Changes from Neutral to Soft and Whispered Speech and their Impact on Automatic Speaker Recognition
- The Effect of Anger and Fear on Forensic Authomatic Speaker Recognition System Performance
- The Impact of Face Coverings on Speech Comprehension and Perceptions of Speaker Attributes
- Tracking Linguistic Differences in the Ultrasound Images of the Tongue in Spoken and Silent Speech Conditions Using Pose Estimation
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