Research interests
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We can offer expert supervision across a wide range of topics:
- Applied Linguistics
- Developmental linguistics, including first and second language acquisition
- Discourse and conversation analysis
- Historical English Linguistics, including the syntax, morphology, and phonology from the earliest periods to the present day
- Language evolution
- Morphology, including word formation
- Multilingualism
- Phonetics and phonology, including diachronic phonology and the phonology of varieties of English and their history
- Pragmatics
- Sociolinguistics
- Speech technology
- Syntax and semantics, including theoretical syntax, descriptive syntax of English, diachronic syntax and both lexical and formal semantics
- Varieties of English, both British and international
Furthermore, there are a number of experts in a range of different theoretical approaches to the study of language.
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