Postgraduate researchers

Jamie Adams
Research interests:
The effect of pinyin and zhuyin tone diacritics on the perception and production of Mandarin tones by L1 English speakers.

Rouaa Alatawi
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Sociolinguistic variation and change in the speech of Bedouin and urban in Saudi Arabian City "Tabuk".

Hajar Alenezy
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Vowel space areas across some Arabic dialects (Gulf dialects): Vowel Production and Perception study.

Budur Alqarni
Research interests:
First language attrition and second language acquisition: Exploring phonological, lexical and morphological aspects among Arabic-English and English-Arabic bilinguals.

Mahmoud Alsabhi
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The production of emphatic fricatives in spoken Arabic dialects.

Fadwa Alturki
Research interests:
Exploring the impact of age of acquisition and exposure on phonological features in second dialect acquisition.

Stuti Bhagat
Research interests:
Grammatical Gender as a social index - a sociolinguistic study of Kurukh.

Claudia Cojocaru
Research interests:
Language attrition in multilingual foster children, international adoptees, and migrants: a mixed-methods approach.

Shiyang Fu
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An investigation of extractions from coordination: Cases from ATB and asymmetric extraction.

Buhan Guo
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Prosodic disambiguation of Nesting vs. Sisterhood structures.

Elliot Holmes
Research interests:
Towards linguistically-informed automatic speaker recognition.

Xinzi Hou
Research interests:
Tone, inotation and their relationship in Nanning Madarin.

Lu Jin
Research interests:
Chinese Measure Phrases: Syntactic Analysis and Semantic Composition.

Fani Karageorgou
Research interests:
Structural constraints on memory retrieval.

Alison Knight
Research interests:
Phonetics of evasive responses during police interviews.

Lirong Liang
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A study of surpass comparative and experiential aspect in Madarin Chinese.

Malebogo Moji
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A conversation analysis approach to the study of doctor/nurse-patient interactions in Botswana is my title for now.

Rosario Neyra
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Micro-analysis of live online workshops where adults learn a practical manual skill.

Victoria Noble
Research interests:
The Singulative: Comparative Syntax and Crosslinguistic Semantics.

Kara Rancourt
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An analysis of the Chinese plural marker -men.

Alice Richardson
Research interests:
Interpreting in the Asylum Procedure.

Kang Sun
Research interests:
Disaffiliative status modulated by prosody in Mandarin Chinese.

Heather Turner
Research interests:
Language Attitudes in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Ryoko Uetomi
Research interests:
The role of prior languages in multilingual language acquisition: Mandarin as a third language in Japanese-English bilinguals.

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

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

Liang Zhao
Research interests:
Production and perception of Mandarin dialect tone systems.

Tiberius Hong
Research interests:
The Interface of Syntax and Information Structure, in a Diachronic Analysis of Classical Chinese'.

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

Elizabeth Hopkins
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Morphological inflection in early Middle English place-names.

Judith Candace Ahijah
Research interests:
A Sociolinguistic Study of Phonological Variation in Anlo-Ewe.

Samar Yanallah J Alalnemr
Research interests:
Assessing AI Translation Tools Using the BLEU Score.

Xiaozhou Zhang
Research interests:
Syntactic Peripheries in Mandarin: A Structural and Contextual Analysis.

Luyang Zhou
Research interests:
A multimodal conversation analysis of children's engagement in paediatric consultation.

Elliot Benke
Research interests:
An Investigation into the Domain(s) of Syntactic Operations.

Jinjin Lin
Research interests:
Automatic Speaker Recognition Study between Mandarin and Southern Min Dialect.