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Postgraduate Study in Linguistics

Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

 

Current PhD Students in Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages

Name College Research Topic Supervisor
James Algie King's College Corpus-based and Experimental Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Prof听Ianthi Tsimpli
Alan Ansell Churchill College Learning to remember: enhanced long-term memory for natural language understanding Prof听Anna Korhonen
Linda Bakkouche Lucy Cavendish College The role of auditory and cognitive individual differences in second language speech learning. Prof Brechtje Post
Ema Banerjee Emmanuel College Licensing Ellipsis; Beyond Syntax Prof Ian Roberts
Mireia Cabanes-Calabuig Downing College Semantics and pragmatics of expressive language Prof听Kasia Jaszczolt
Churchill College L1-Attrition of Pronominal Reference and (Pseudo)Relative Clause Parsing in Italian Prof Ianthi Tsimpli
Nuphak Charoensirisoonthorn Christ's College听 The development of temporal expression in English by L1 speakers of Thai Prof Henriette Hendriks
Xiaoxuan Chen Lucy Cavendish College Reporting Nonliteralness: Propositional Attitude Reports and Figurative Language Prof Kasia Jaszczolt
Stefania Costea St John's College The effects of contact on Moldovan Daco-Romanian syntax Prof听Adam Ledgeway
Joe Cowan Darwin College Dr Napoleon Katsos
Kateryna听Derkach Fitzwilliam College The Acquisition of Articles in L2 English Dr Dora Alexpoulou
Marco Fioratti Sidney Sussex College Interrogative inversion: syntax and semantics at the interface Prof Adam Ledgeway
Panagiotis Fytas Robinson College Extracting Insights into Social Sciences by Combining Natural Language Processing with Causal Inference Prof听Anna Korhonen
Luca Gal Christ's College听 The replication of Evaluative Morphology in Romance鈥搉on-Romance language contact Prof听Adam Ledgeway
Aurora Lixinhao Gao Newnham College Language Learning of Ethnic Minority Students in the UK Prof Henri毛tte Hendriks and
Selwyn College Selection of similar speakers based on perceptual judgements and measured features for forensic applications Dr Kirsty McDougall
Sarah Gordon Trinity Hall Null subjects and information structure in British Sign Language and the history of English Dr Marieke Meelen听and听Professor Ianthi Tsimpli
Yiyang Guo Trinity College The syntax and semantics of counting: A comparative approach Prof Ian Roberts and Dr Theresa Biberauer
Nina Haket Trinity Hall Linguistics and Conceptual Engineering Prof Kasia Jaszczolt
Tiancheng Hu Wolfson College Natural language processing and computational social science Prof Nigel Collier
Songbo听Hu Girton College Building coherent open-domain dialogue systems Prof听Anna Korhonen
Elena Isolani Sidney Sussex College The Parametric Comparison Method: a diachronic comparative analysis of Italian and Florentine Prof听Ian Roberts听听听
Ka Ho (Arthur) Kan Darwin College Argument Structure in Childhood Bilingualism - the case of Resultative Prof Ianthi Tsimpli
Emily Lau Jesus College Dissecting and Synthesizing Dramatic Affect Prof听Brechtje Post
Shue Sum (Rory) Leung Downing College Disentangling the effects of input linguistic complexity and task cognitive complexity on L2 output alignment and learning outcomes using a read-to-write paradigm Dr Dora Alexopoulou
Anthony Li Girton College The Domain-Specificity of Task-Switching in Multilingualism: a Study on Cantonese-Mandarin-English Prof Ianthi Tsimpli
Kechun (Katrina) Li Churchill College Prosodic focus in Chinese dialects Prof听Brechtje Post and Prof听Francis Nolan
Yaoyiran听Li Robinson College Code the Comprehension: Towards Better Representation Learning Dr Anna Korhonen
Yinhong (William) Liu Corpus Christi College High-quality Multi-Sentence Text Generation from Knowledge Graph Prof Nigel Collier
Alice Paver Jesus College听 The phonetic and perceptual underpinnings of voice distinctiveness and voice quality.听 Dr Kirsty McDougall
Marinela Parovic Trinity College Cross-lingual NLP and language modelling Prof听Anna Korhonen
Anastasiia Petrenko Newnham College The ways of time conceptualisation in different languages Prof Kasia Jaszczolt
Ulla Petti Trinity College Detecting Alzheimer's Disease from Semantic Verbal Fluency Prof听Anna Korhonen
Victor Prokhorov Selwyn College Inducing Semantic Embeddings for Unseen Words with Artificial Neural Networks Dr Nigel Collier
Evgeniia Razumovskaia Queens' College Making dialog systems controllable, interpretable and generalizable by incorporating structure into end-to-end systems Prof听Anna Korhonen
Madeleine Rees Pembroke College Individual variability dictating integration of speech production and perception systems in Spanish & English-speaking bilinguals Prof听Brechtje Post听and Dr Matt Davis
Fangning Ren Downing College An Interface-based Approach to Analysing Wh-fronting Constructions in Mandarin Chinese听 Prof Ian Roberts
Leonardo Russo Cardona Gonville & Caius College Voice and non-canonical passives Prof Ian Roberts听and听Prof Ioanna Sitaridou
Julia Schwarz Jesus College Separate, Combined, or Parallel Routes? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Complex Word Processing Prof Brechtje Post
Sadiyah听Shahidullah Newnham College Rethinking Post-Gricean Categories of Meaning: Evidence from Arabic Linguistic-Pragmatic Thought and Arabic Discourse Prof Kasia Jaszczolt
Yibing听Shi Newnham College Tone sandhi across Chinese Wu dialects Prof Brechtje Post
Chang Shu Hughes Hall Human-centered Natural Language Generation Prof Nigel Collier
Jasper Sim Jesus College Phonological Acquisition of Contact varieties of English in Simultaneous Bilinguals Prof听Brechtje Post
Chara Triantafyllidou Downing College The Role of Prosodic Skills and Socioeconomic Status in Reading Comprehension Prof Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli
Andromachi (Anna) Tsoukala Queens' College The Role of Prediction in Reading Prof听Ianthi M. Tsimpli, , and
Chrysoula (Lina) Vassiliu Magdalene College Individual Differences in Multilingualism and Language Learning: Effects on Cognitive Flexibility and Structure Learning Prof听Henriette Hendriksand
Yutong Wang Jesus College听 Incomplete neutralisation in Beijing retroflex suffixation Prof Brechtje Post and
Jodie Webber Darwin College Linguistic and cognitive effects of a mobile teaching kitchens intervention (nutrition education) Prof听Ianthi Tsimpli听and
Mandy Wigdorowitz St John's College Linguistic and Cognitive Effects of Contextual and Individual Linguistic Diversity: Multilingualism in South Africa and the United Kingdom Prof听Ianthi Tsimpli
Zuzanna听Witkowska King's College The impact of proficiency and learning context on linguistic sources of miscommunication in native/non-native interaction Prof听Henriette Hendriks
Yuyan Xue Trinity College Implicit/explicit semiartificial L2 learning effects on motion event conceptualization: online and offline effects Prof John Williams
Liu Yang Newnham College On the structure of nominal coordination Prof Ian Roberts听and听Dr Theresa听Biberauer
Chenyi Zhang Trinity Hall Individual differences in Text-Picture Integration Prof听Ianthi Tsimpli
Meiru Zhang Murray Edwards College Early detection of epidemic outbreaks based on social media data Prof Nigel Collier
Yixin Zhang Selwyn College L1 Development of Lexical Tone from an Interactive and Parallel Perspective Prof听Brechtje Postand Dr Elaine Schmidt
Fanghua Zheng Girton College How Plurality is Encoded in Mandarin Chinese Noun Phrases Prof听Ian Roberts听and Dr Theresa Biberauer
Tianyi Zheng Queen's College English literacy development in China's ethnic minority children Prof Ianthi Tsimpli
Clare Hall LEXICAL Project

Prof听Anna Korhonen

For recent PhD awardees, please see here.