Current and recent postgraduate students

List of current and recent postgraduate students working on English-Language-related topics

 

 Research topic
Elizabeth AdeoluAccents of Nigerian English: perceptions and attitudes
Abdulrahman AlwadeaThe stress patterns of disyllabic words in English
Soundess Azzabou–KacemThe optionality of pre-nuclear prominence in Rhythm Rule environments: the effects of prosodic boundary strength and stress clash
Zachary BoydCross-cultural indexical cues and perception in the construction of sexual identities within native and non-native speaker interaction
Amanda CardosoThe PRICE and MOUTH diphthongs in Liverpool English
Xin ChenParticiples, gerunds and _drinking water_ vs. _Trinkwasser_ 
Nestor dela CruzAttitudes towards Filipino call centre accents
Nadine DietrichHistorical semantics; futurity and modality in English, Corpus Linguistics, Grammaticalisation Theory 
Lisa GotthardDiachronic variation and change; syntax; Scots; parsed corpora; language contact; Germanic varieties
E JamiesonNegation in spoken Scots dialects
Daniel LawrenceSociophonetics and the North-South Divide in England: an experimental investigation of socio-indexical knowledge
Thijs LubbersDeveloping a grammar of prose
Dan McColmConstructional change in English, German and Dutch
Natasha MemonThe impact of the IELTS test in Pakistan
Sara MyersSome aspects of the development of the genitive noun phrase in Middle English
Manuela RocchiNon-interrogative argument-filling If and When clauses in English and Italian
Daisy SmithThe inflectional morphology of Older Scots
Sarah van EyndhovenHistorical Sociolinguistics; 18th century written Scots; political indexicality and identity in the Union of 1707