Current and recent postgraduate students
List of current and recent postgraduate students working on English-Language-related topics
Research topic | |
Elizabeth Adeolu | Accents of Nigerian English: perceptions and attitudes |
The stress patterns of disyllabic words in English | |
Soundess Azzabou–Kacem | The optionality of pre-nuclear prominence in Rhythm Rule environments: the effects of prosodic boundary strength and stress clash |
Zachary Boyd | Cross-cultural indexical cues and perception in the construction of sexual identities within native and non-native speaker interaction |
Amanda Cardoso | The PRICE and MOUTH diphthongs in Liverpool English |
Xin Chen | Participles, gerunds and _drinking water_ vs. _Trinkwasser_ |
Nestor dela Cruz | Attitudes towards Filipino call centre accents |
Nadine Dietrich | Historical semantics; futurity and modality in English, Corpus Linguistics, Grammaticalisation Theory |
Diachronic variation and change; syntax; Scots; parsed corpora; language contact; Germanic varieties | |
E Jamieson | Negation in spoken Scots dialects |
Daniel Lawrence | Sociophonetics and the North-South Divide in England: an experimental investigation of socio-indexical knowledge |
Thijs Lubbers | Developing a grammar of prose |
Dan McColm | Constructional change in English, German and Dutch |
Natasha Memon | The impact of the IELTS test in Pakistan |
Sara Myers | Some aspects of the development of the genitive noun phrase in Middle English |
Manuela Rocchi | Non-interrogative argument-filling If and When clauses in English and Italian |
Daisy Smith | The inflectional morphology of Older Scots |
Historical Sociolinguistics; 18th century written Scots; political indexicality and identity in the Union of 1707 |