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Several of our postgrads, at work in the postgrad space in the Berrick Saul building

Current postgraduate research students

Student Research Supervisor(s)
Jamie Abbott Working memory strategies during comprehension: the maintenance, decay and retrieval of information
Jamie Adams The effect of pinyin and zhuyin tone diacritics on the perception and production of Mandarin tones by L1 English speakers
Rouaa Alatawi Sociolinguistic variation and change in the speech of Bedouin and urban in Saudi Arabian City "Tabuk"
Hajar Alenezy Vowel space areas across some Arabic dialects (Gulf dialects): Vowel Production and Perception study
Amereh Almossa Discourse-pragmatic variation in Najdi Arabic
Budur Alqarni First language attrition and second language acquisition: Exploring phonological, lexical and morphological aspects among Arabic-English and English-Arabic bilinguals
Mahmoud Alsabhi The production of emphatic fricatives in spoken Arabic dialects
Kayed Alsultan Combating disinformation through linguistic literacy: an evidential and epistemic approach
Fadwa Alturki Exploring the impact of age of acquisition and exposure on phonological features in second dialect acquisition
Aljawharah Alzamil Intonational Variation Within and Between Spoken Dialects of Saudi Arabia
Margherita Belia The effects of sleep and infants' vocal production experience in new word learning
Stuti Bhagat Grammatical Gender as a social index - a sociolinguistic study of Kurukh
Rui Qi Choo Early speech production of Mandarin-learning infants: A longitudinal observational and experimental study
Claudia Cojocaru Language attrition in multilingual foster children, international adoptees, and migrants: a mixed-methods approach
Shiyang Fu An investigation of extractions from coordination: Cases from ATB and asymmetric extraction
Ben Gibb-Reid Phonetic variation of discourse-pragmatic variables with an application for forensic voice comparison
Yuxi Gong On the second language acquisition of dou-quantification in Mandarin Chinese by L1-English and L1-Japanese speakers
Buhan Guo Prosodic disambiguation of Nesting vs. Sisterhood structures
Lauren Harrington Accent bias in human and machine transcription 
Julia Heimann A longitudinal study on lexical access and executive control in adult bilinguals
Elliot Holmes Towards linguistically-informed automatic speaker recognition
Xinzi Hou Tone, inotation and their relationship in Nanning Madarin
Lu Jin Chinese
 Measure Phrases: Syntactic Analysis and Semantic Composition		  
Fani Karageorgou Structural constraints on memory retrieval
Katharina Klug Analysing voice quality as a component of forensic speaker comparison
Alison Knight Phonetics of evasive responses during police interviews
Lirong Liang A study of surpass comparative and experiential aspect in Madarin Chinese
Malebogo Moji A conversation analysis approach to the study of doctor/nurse-patient interactions in Botswana is my title for now
Sarvenaz Moradi Templatic approach to Persian child phonology
Rosario Neyra Micro-analysis of live online workshops where adults learn a practical manual skill
Victoria Noble The Singulative: Comparative Syntax and Crosslinguistic Semantics
Kara Rancourt An analysis of the Chinese plural marker -men
Alice Richardson Interpreting in the Asylum Procedure
Sascha Schäfer Assessing the individual voice recognition skills of earwitnesses
Kang Sun Disaffiliative status modulated by prosody in Mandarin Chinese
Nikita Suthar Role of Formants and Within-formant Acoustic Measures of Vowels in Forensic Speaker Identification: A Study of Vowels in Marwari as Spoken in Bikaner
Nikki Swift Phonological acquisition in a multi-dialectical environment
Heather Turner Language Attitudes in Baku, Azerbaijan
Ryoko Uetomi The role of prior languages in multilingual language acquisition: Mandarin as a third language in Japanese-English bilinguals
Samantha Williams

Linguistically informed design of non-native accent recognition system for forensic applications
Leila Yaqoub

A sociolinguistic study of the Rijal Alma dialect in Asir, Saudi Arabia: Production and perception
Liang Zhao

Production and perception of Mandarin dialect tone systems