Postgraduate researchers

Jamie Adams

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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

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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

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Exploring the impact of age of acquisition and exposure on phonological features in second dialect acquisition.

Stuti Bhagat

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Grammatical Gender as a social index - a sociolinguistic study of Kurukh.

Claudia Cojocaru

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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

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Towards linguistically-informed automatic speaker recognition.

Xinzi Hou

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Tone, inotation and their relationship in Nanning Madarin.

Lu Jin

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Chinese Measure Phrases: Syntactic Analysis and Semantic Composition.

Fani Karageorgou

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Structural constraints on memory retrieval.

Alison Knight

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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

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The Singulative: Comparative Syntax and Crosslinguistic Semantics.

Kara Rancourt

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An analysis of the Chinese plural marker -men.

Alice Richardson

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Interpreting in the Asylum Procedure.

Kang Sun

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Disaffiliative status modulated by prosody in Mandarin Chinese.

Heather Turner

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Language Attitudes in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Ryoko Uetomi

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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

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Production and perception of Mandarin dialect tone systems.

Tiberius Hong

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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

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A Sociolinguistic Study of Phonological Variation in Anlo-Ewe.

Samar Yanallah J Alalnemr

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Assessing AI Translation Tools Using the BLEU Score.

Xiaozhou Zhang

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Syntactic Peripheries in Mandarin: A Structural and Contextual Analysis.

Luyang Zhou

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A multimodal conversation analysis of children's engagement in pediatric consultation.

Elliot Benke

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An Investigation into the Domain(s) of Syntactic Operations.

Jinjin Lin

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Automatic Speaker Recognition Study between Mandarin and Southern Min Dialect.