Recent dissertation topics

A small sample of recent dissertation topics, broken down by subject:

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

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?

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

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

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

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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