Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

PhD students and their research interests

Current students:

• Kyriakos Antoniou
  The role of executive functioning and theory-of-mind in children's acquisition
  Email: ka353@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Napoleon Katsos
  
  
• Alastair Appleton
  The Extended Projection Principle: a cross-linguistic study
  Email: awa21@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Professor Ian Roberts
  
  
• András Barany
  The morphosyntactic realisation of prominent direct objects across languagese
  Email: ab2081@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisors: Professor Ian Roberts, Dr Theresa Biberauer and Dr Michelle Sheehan
  
  
• Tim Bazalgette
  Discourse Macroparameters and the Borer-Chomsky Conjecture
  Email: tob26@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisors: Professor Ian Roberts, Dr Theresa Biberauer and Dr Jenneke Van der Wal
  
  
• Christian Bentz
  Quantitative models of language change: How learner populations shape language structures over time.
  Email: cb696@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisors: Dr Paula Buttery and Dr Edward Briscoe
  
  
• Alison Biggs
  Ergativity, relation-changing constructions, and abstract Case.
  Email: arcb2@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisors: Professor Ian Roberts, Dr Michelle Sheehan and Dr Theresa Biberauer
  
  
• Jessica Brown
  Clustering, complementation and head-finality
  Email: jb789@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisors: Professor Ian Roberts, Dr Theresa Biberauer and Dr Jenneke van der Wal
  
  
• James Naruadol Chancharu
  An evolutionary approach to parallel and convergent grammaticalisation
  Email: nc368@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr David Willis
  
  
• Faith Chiu
  Gemination and Laryngeal Specification in Obstruents
  Email: fc368@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Bert Vaux
  
  
• Peter Crosthwaite
  Differences between the coherence of L2 English learner production and English native speakers: an empirical study
  Email: prc34@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Henriette Hendriks
  
  
• Alison Edwards
  This English is too English
  Email: ae302@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Henriette Hendriks
  
  
• Chi-Hé Elder
  The semantics and pragmatics of conditionals
  Email: chme2@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Professor Kasia Jaszczolt
  
  
• Yvonne Flory
  The influence of head and body postures on the speech signal
  Email: yf243@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Professor Francis Nolan
  
  
• Thomas Godard
  Seventeenth-century French grammarians and the codification of English (1660-1780)
  Email: tg289@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Professor Sylvia Adamson
  
  
• Calbert Graham
  Japanese and Spanish L1 adult speakers' L2 acquisition of English prosody
  Email: crg29@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Brechtje Post
  
  
• Ena Hodzik
  Anticipation during simultaneous interpretation
  Email: eh367@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr John Williams
  
  
• Georg Höhn
  Nominal structure, null arguments and conditions on the exponence of functional morphology
  Email: gfkh3@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisors: Professor Ian Roberts, Dr Michelle Sheehan and Dr Theresa Biberauer
  
  
• Fang-Yen Amy Hsieh
  The comparison of relative clause acquisition by L2 learners of Chinese and L2 learners of English
  Email: fyh20@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Teresa Parodi
  
  
• Xuhui Hu
  The Syntax of Resultatives: An Interface-based Approach
  Email: xh238@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Professor Ian Roberts
  
  
• Anna Jespersen
  The perception of sociophonetic identity markers in Sydney Aboriginal English
  Email: abj28@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Bert Vaux
  
  
• Maria Kunevich
  L1 effects on learner grammar development: the interactions between grammar and information structure
  Email: msk41@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr D Alexopoulou
  
  
• Aike Li
  L2 rhythm development by Mandarin Chinese learners of English
  Email: al541@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Brechtje Post
  
  
• Moreno Mitrovic
  Diachronic Syntax Coordination in Indo-European
  Email: mm821@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Professor Ian Roberts
  
  
• Iain Mobbs
  Minimalism and the Design of the Language Faculty
  Email: ijm30@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisors: Professor Ian Roberts and Dr Theresa Biberauer
  
  
• Akira Murakami
  Transfer effects in the L2 acquisition of English grammatical morphemes
  Email: am933@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Dora Alexopoulou
  
  
• Joseph Perry
  Tone and the Phonological Word in Gyalsumdo, a Tibetan Language of Nepal
  Email: jjp45@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Bert Vaux
  
  
• Eleni Savva
  Incomplete utterances from a contextualist perspective
  Email: es5722@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Prof Kasia Jaszczolt
  
  
• Luca Sbordone
  Default meanings and the semantics/pragmatics distinctions
  Email: ls593@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Prof Kasia Jaszczolt
  
  
• Elaine Schmidt
  The acquisition of prosody in Spanish-English bilingual children
  Email: aeis2@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Brechtje Post
  
  
• Jessica Soltys
  Off-record indirectness
  Email: jms256@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Napoleon Katsos
  
  
• Aznah Suhaimi
  The acquisition of temporality by L1 learners of Brunei Malay
  Email: as2043@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Henriette Hendriks
  
  
• Yan Tao
  Implicit learning of linguistic and non-linguistic sequences
  Email: yt286@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr John Williams
  
  
• Nikola Vukovic
  Sensory-motor processing of word meanings in a bilingual framework
  Email: nv254@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr John Williams
  
  
• Jeffrey Watamull
  Mathematical Principles of the Language Faculty
  Email: jw647@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Professor Ian Roberts
  
  
• Samuel Wolfe
  Word Order in Medieval Romance: A Comparative Study
  Email: sw493@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Adam Ledgeway
  

Recent successful PhD students:

• Spyros Armosti
  The phonetics of plosive and affricate gemination in Cypriot Greek
  Supervisor: Professor Francis Nolan
  
  
• Katharine Barden
  Perceptual Learning of Context-Sensitive Phonetic Detail
  Supervisor: Professor Sarah Hawkins
  
  
• Ruth Cumming
  Speech rhythm: The language-specific integration of pitch and duration
  Supervisor: Professor Francis Nolan
  
  
• Chris Cummins
  The interpretation and usage of numerically quantified expressions
  Supervisor: Dr Napoleon Katsos
  
  
• Helen Engemann
  The expression of caused and voluntary motion in bilingual child acquisition of English and French
  Supervisor: Dr Henriette Hendriks
  
  
• Yufan Guo
  Automatic discovery of textual information structure
  Email: yg244@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Anna Korhonen
  
  
• Hae-Sung Jeon
  Prosodic phrasing in Seoul Korean: the role of pitch and timing cues
  Supervisor: Professor Francis Nolan
  
  
• Marius Jøhndal
  Nonfiniteness in Latin
  Supervisor: Dr David Willis
  
  
• Minyao Huang
  Vagueness and modality, with reference to English and Chinese
  Email: mh538@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Professor Kasia Jaszczolt
  
  
• Eleni Kapogianni
  Irony and the literal versus nonliteral distinction
  Supervisor: Professor Kasia Jaszczolt
  
  
• Petros Karatsareas
  A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal inflection from a diachronic and dialectological perspective
  Supervisor: Dr Bert Vaux
  
  
• Elliott Lash
  The syntactic development of the Irish copula
  Supervisor: Dr David Willis
  
  
• Dimitris Michelioudakis
  Inherent case in the history of Greek
  Supervisors: Professor Ian Roberts and Dr Ioanna Sitaridou
  
  
• Morgan Macleod
  Tense and Aspect in Germanic
  Supervisor: Dr Sheila Watts
  
  
• Theoni Neokleous
  The L1 acquisition of Cypriot Greek pronominal clitics
  Email: tn247@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Teresa Parodi
  
  
• Albertyna Paciorek
  Implicit learning of word meaning
  Supervisor: Dr John Williams
  
  
• Elena Pala
  Revitalisation of Sardinian: corpus and status planning
  Email: ep345@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Mari Jones
  
  
• Marco Piccolino Boniforti
  Models of human speech perception
  Email: map55@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Professor Sarah Hawkins
  
  
• Arturas Ratkus
  The Adjective Inflection in Gothic and Early Germanic: Structure and Development
  Supervisor: Dr Sheila Watts
  
  
• Thomas Rainsford
  Prosodic and syntactic change in medieval French
  Supervisor: Professor Wendy Bennett
  
  
• Erica Ross
  Diachronic developments in the scope of phonological generalisations
  Supervisor: Dr Bert Vaux
  
  
• Anna Tristram
  Variation and Change in Verbal Agreement with Collective Nouns in French
  Supervisor: Professor Wendy Bennett
  
  
• Norbert Vanek
  Cross-linguistic perspectives on temporality and event construal
  Email: nv244@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr Henriette Hendriks
  
  
• Chris Veysey
  Investigating metrics of complexity and their ability to predict the dative alternation in Modern and Historical Englishes
  Email: clv29@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Dr John Williams
  
  
• George Walkden
  Syntactic Reconstruction and Proto-Germanic
  Supervisor: Dr David Willis
  
  
• Olivia Walsh
  Language, National Identity and Linguistic Purism in the major French-speaking countries
  Email: omw23@cam.ac.uk
  Supervisor: Professor Wendy Bennett
  
  

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