James Hoskin "Shifting the Burden: towards more robust and transparent procedures for LADO"
Rongkun Liu "The loss of MID in English"
Alnuri Fadhel "A sociolinguistic study of the Banū Yām dialect in the Najrān region, Southern Arabia"
Katharina Klug "Analysing voice quality as a component of forensic speaker comparison"
Yuxi Gong "On the second language acquisition of dou-quantification in Mandarin Chinese by L1-English and L1-Japanese speakers"
Aljawharah Alzamil "Intonational Variation Within and Between Spoken Dialects of Saudi Arabia"
Krestina Christensen "Understanding the acoustic implications of digital transmission on fricatives"
Yasir Almukhaizeem "The Role of Emotionality on the Organisation of English Abstract Words in the Lexicon "
Florence Oxley "Laterality and Babble: Does asymmetry in lip opening during babble indicate increasing left hemisphere dominance as babies gain articulatory experience?"
2022
Jing Hoi Lo "Issues of bilingualism in likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison"
Hannah Lurcuck "Affiliating and Disaffiliating with Complaints"
Sam Wells "Deriving complex verbs using Merge"
Xiao Wang "The effect of sampling variability on system performance and individual speakers’ behaviour in likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison"
Anna Rath Foley "The construction of meaning in advertising: A relevance theoretic approach"
Emanuela Buizza "The production and perception of reduced pronouns and auxiliaries in British English"
Umar Gombe Muhammad "A Comparative Phonological Analysis of Varieties of English Spoken by Native Speakers of Nigerian Languages (Hausa, Igbo, Kanuri and Yoruba) for the Determination of Speakers’ Origins"
Reihaneh Afshari Saleh "Pursuits in Collision: Affiliation, Disaffiliation, and Multimodality in Persian Interaction"
Shansan Lou "Early Phonological Development in Mandarin: An Analysis of Prosodic Structures, Segment and Tones from Babbling Through the Single-Word Period"
Latifa Alkuwaiz "Laryngeal Contrast and Phonetic Voicing: An Arabic Cross-dialectal Laboratory Phonology Approach"
2021
Mohammad Bani Younes "The Role of Intonation in the Disambiguation of Disjunctive Questions (Alternative Questions and Yes-no Questions)"
Ghada Alkuwaihes "A syntactic analysis of particle-based exclamatives in Gulf Arabic"
Obied Al-Aqlobi "Interconsonantal Intervals in Bisha Arabic and Makkah Arabic: New Insights from Variable Vowel Insertion"
Yu Wang "The Generic pronouns in Mandarin Chinese"
2020
Marina Noelia Cantarutti "(Dis)Association in English Interaction: the sequential and prosodic design of "social unitness"
Salina Cuddy "Language Variation in a Football Community"
Ying-Ju Chang "Aspects of Southern Min grammar in areal and typological perspectives"
Miyuki Kamiya "The Categorisation and Distribution of Japanese Mimetics: Japanese Mimetics as Prenominal Modifiers"
Chandeera Gunawardena "Object clitics and adverb placement in French second and third language acquisition"
2010s
Theses completed in the 2010s
2019
Wenling Cao "Accent attitude and its effect on non-native speaker's phonetic accommodation: The case of Hong Kong English"
Katherina Walper Gormaz "Non-Verbal Communication & Second Language Acquisition"
Sarah Kelly "Identifying the acoustic and prosodic parameters used by listeners to infer threat to harm from 'neutrally-worded' utterances"
Sehrish Shafi "A Phonological Analysis of English Loanwords in Mirpur Pahari: Exploring Variable Adaptation in Optimality Theory"
Moun Shin "A comparative study of honorific systems in North and South Korea: shifts since 1950"
James Tompkinson "An investigation into the acoustic properties of verbal threats"
Grace Wood "Accent Discrimination within the courtroom in regard to non-standard dialects and stigmatized communities in the US"
Aws Younus "The prosodic design of Iraqi Arabic political speeches"
2018
Margarita Makri "Typology of comparative constructions"
"A multimodal analysis of assessment sequences in Chilean Spanish interaction"
Shadiya Al-Hashmi "Phonology of Arabic loanwords in Turkish"
YoungJae An "The syntax-semantics interface in second language acquisition: Crossover effects in wh-interrogatives"
Georgina Brown "Modelling pronunciation with distance: An automatic speaker comparison system for forensic applications"
Mariam Dar "Effects of development on cross-language speech perception"
"Variation and Change in the Achterhoeks Dialect"
2017
Rachelle Lee "Language Ideologies in the Secondary School: Attitude and Identity in Bilingual Wales"
Dima Al-Malahmeh "The Influence of Parental Attitudes and the Presence of Domestic Helpers on the Acquisition of Arabic among Jordanian Children"
Ania Kubisz "Perception of Speaker Social-Indexical Information"
"Dialect Convergence in Egypt: The impact of Cairene Arabic on Minia Arabic"
Swulam Alataiy "The Syntax of the Left Periphery in Arabic"
Zhishuang Chen "Mandarin Directional Serial Verb Constructions: A Constructionist Approach"
2016
"Exploring the Role of Onomatopoeia in Phonological Development"
Parastou Marvasti "Early Morphological Acquisition in Bilingual Children"
Nathan Atkinson "Variable Factors in Voice and Content Identification in Forensic Contexts"
Jessica Wormald "Regional Variation in Punjabi English"
"The Syntax-Morphology Interface in Classical Chinese"
Anwar Aljadani "Arabic and English Learners’ Acquisition of the Narrow-Range Rules for the Dative Alternation in Arabic and English Languages"
"Representing the Addressee: Discourse Participants at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface"
"Children's Developing Awareness of Regional Accents"
Rashidah Albaqami "The Acquisition of English Prepositional Feature-Assembly by Arab EFL students: A Case Ƶapp of Saudi Students in Taif University, Saudi Arabia"
Kim Wilson "Current Practices in Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO): A Survey and Empirical Investigation"
2015
Katarzyna Alexander "Perception of the Boundary between Singleton and Geminate Plosives by Greek Cypriots"
Tom Devlin "Sociophonetic Variation, Orientation and Topic in County Durham"
Vince Hughes "The Definition of the Relevant Population and the Collection of Data for Likelihood Ratio-based Forensic Voice Comparison"
Helen West "Accent Levelling and Speaker Attitudes on the Merseyside/Lancashire Border: A Sociophonetic Ƶapp of Southport and Ormskirk"
Kim Witten "Sociolinguistic Variation and Enregisterment in an Online Community of Practice: A Case Ƶapp of MetaFilter.com"
Shaun Austin "Adolescent Identity, Style and Classroom Presentations: How Issues of Social Identity can Constrain Linguistic Style"
Man Ki Lee "Negative Wh-Quantifiers in Cantonese: A Proposed Neg-WhQ and Second Language Acquisitions of Neg-whQ"
Upsorn Tawilapakul "Denial and Counter-Expectation in Thai"
Elaine Sarah Lopez
"The Role of Explicit Instruction on Article Acquisition in L2 English"
2014
Ruwayshid Alruwaili "Second Language Acquisition of Aspect and Tense by Saudi Arabic Learners of English"
Natalie Fecher "Effects of Forensically-Relevant Facial Concealment on Speech Acoustics and Perception"
Erica Gold "Calculating Likelihood Ratios in Forensic Speaker Comparison Cases Using Phonetic and Linguistic Features"
Phil Harrison "Formant Measurement Errors from LPC based Analyses of Real and Synthetic Speech"
Lisa Roberts "A Forensic Phonetic Ƶapp of the Vocal Responses of Individuals in Distress"
2013
Ghazi Algethami "The Production of English Speech Rhythm by L2 Saudi Arabic Speakers"
Rana Almbark "Perception and Production of English Vowels by Syrian Arabic Speakers"
Nicholas Flynn "Levelling and Diffusion at the North/South Border: A Sociophonetic Ƶapp of Nottingham Speakers"
Maryam Gholizadeh "Scope Interpretation in First and Second Language Acquisition: Numeral and Existential Quantifiers and Negation"
Colleen Kavanagh "Acoustic Parameters of Consonant Segments for Forensic Speaker Comparison"
Richard Rhodes "Reliability of Non-Contemporaneous Forensic Speech Evidence"
Marta Szreder-Ptasinska "The Interaction of Articulatory and Cognitive Processes in Phonological Development"
Mariola Turek "Multiple Spell-Out Approach to Wh-Fronting"
2012
Sami Alresaini "Acquisition of Modern Standard Arabic by Speakers of Different Arabic Varieties"
2011
Antri Kanikli "The Syntax of Wh-Questions in Cypriot Greek and Its Consequences"
Rein Sikveland "Co-ordination of Speech and Gesture in Sequence and Time"
Norman Yeo "Unifying Optional Wh-Movement"
2010
Suzanne Bardeas "The Syntax of the Arabic Determiner Phrases"
"Regional Dialect Levelling and Language Standards: Changes in the Honesfoss Dialect"
Koji Kawahara "Gradability in the Theory of Grammar"
Daniel Redinger "Language Attitudes and Code-Switching Behaviour in a Multilingual Educational Context: The Case of Luxembourg"
2000s
Theses completed in the 2000s
2009
Marianna Kaimaki "Phonetic Resources and Interactional Function in English and Greek Conversation: Variation and Constraints"
Alan Hseih
"The Interpretation of Null and Overt Pronominal Objects in Native Chinese and English-Chinese Interlanguage"
2008
Nattama Pongpairoj "Variability in Second Language Article Production: A Comparison of L1 Thai and L1 French Learners of L2 English"
Hazel Richards "Mechanisms, Motivations and Outcomes of Change in Morley (Leeds) English"
2007
Shahela Hamid "The Ƶapp of Language Maintenance and Shift in the Sylheti Community in Leeds"
2006
"Phonetic Reduction and Pragmatic Organisation in Dutch Conversation: A Usage-based Account"
Alexandra Galani "The Morphosyntax of Verbs in Modern Greek"
Rebecca Sinar "A History of English Reflexives: from Old English into Modern English"
"The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations"
2005
Melissa Wright "Studies of the Phonetics-Interaction Interface: Clicks and Interactional Structures in English Conversation"
Phillip Wallage "Negation in Early English: Parametric Variation and Grammatical Competition"
Donald Glenn Campbell "Co-constructing Competence: Turn Construction & repair in Novice-to-Novice Second Language Interaction"
2004
"English Auxiliaries: A Syntactic Ƶapp of Contraction And Variation"
Jonny Butler "Phase Structure, Phrase Structure and Quantification"
"The Phonetic Design of Turn Endings, Beginnings and Continuations in Conversation"
Davita Morgan "Objects in Old English: Scrambled, Shifted or in situ?"
Haruko Ishikawa "A Minimalist Approach to Japanese Multiple Nominative Constructions"
"Language Maintenance and Language Shift in Mauritius"
2003
"EPP Satisfiers: Verb-initial Orders in Greek"
Paul Carter "Structured Variation in British English Liquids: the Role of Resonance"
Melody Clarke "Aspect and Polarity"
Srija Sinha "Extraction Domains and Information Partition in Hindi"
2002
"French dislocation"
Luanga Kasanga "Task Type, Interaction and Second Language Acquisition. A study of Oral Productions by Zairean EFL Students"
Alastair Butler "Control and Exhaustification"
2001
Elizabeth McCoy "Tenseless Clauses, AspP and Subject Case-Licensing"
2000
Helen Lawrence "Aspects of English: An Examination of Aspect within Past Temporal Reference in Northern British English"
Zhongping Zhu "Null Arguments in Child Language"
"Synchrony and Diachrony in the Evolution of English: Evidence from Scotland"
Stephen Minnis "The Prediction of Prosodic Structure from Written Text: Revisited, Reformulated, Re-evaluated"
1990s
Theses completed in the 1990s
1997
Zara Iles "Repair Work: Attending to Talk Adequacy in One-to-One EFL Classroom Talk"
1996
Stephen Nicolle "Conceptual and Procedural Encoding in Relevance Theory: A Ƶapp with Reference to English and Kiswahili"
Paul Rowlett "Negative Configurations in French"
1995
Richard Ogden "An Exploration of Phonetic Exponency in Firthian Prosodic Analysis: Form and Substance in Finnish Phonology"
Mukul Saxena "A Sociolinguistic Ƶapp of Panjabi Hindus in Southall: Language Maintenance and Shift"
Guobin Wu "A Discourse Structural Approach to Anaphora in Chinese"
1994
Hilary Gardner "Doing Talk about Speech: A Ƶapp of Speech/Language Therapists and Phonologically Disordered Children Working Together"
1993
Shailjanand Jha "Language Maintenance and Bilingualism in Darbhanga"
Joga Singh "Case and Agreement in Hindi: A GB Approach"
Clare Tarplee "Working on Talk: The Collaborative Shaping of Linguistic Skills within Child-Adult Interaction"
1992
"On the Nature of Agreement: The Syntax of ARB SE"
"Writing Phonological Statements from Naturally Occurring Talk: An Experiment in Method"
1991
"Phonological Representations - Their Names, Forms and Powers"
Joel Fagborun "An Analysis of Linguistic Innovation: Historical and Grammatical Perspectives on English Loan-Translations and the Yoruba Koine"
1990
John Foster "A Theory of Word Order in Categorical Grammar with Special Reference to Spanish"
Julie Bradshaw "Rewordings in Dyadic Language Teaching: A study of Lexis. 2vol"
Anthea Gupta "A Ƶapp of the Acquisition and Use of Interrogatives and Questions in the English of Pre-school Chinese Singaporeans. 2 vols"
Hermas Mwansoko "The Modernization of Swahili Technical Terminologies: An Investigation of the Linguistics and Literature Terminologies"
Lengo Nsakala "Errors in the Speech of Zairean Students of English: With Special Reference to Rate and Lexical Diversity"
1980s
Theses completed in the 1980s
1989
Edward Elderkin "The Significance and Origin of the Use of Pitch in Sandawe"
1988
"Focus in Spoken English"
Yang Han "A Pragmatic Ƶapp of Some Sentence-final and Post-verbal Particles in Mandarin Chinese"
"A Conversation Analytic Approach to the Ƶapp of Utterance Particles in Cantonese"
Jotham Kamanyire "Intonation and Tone in Two Bantu Languages of Uganda"
1987
Alison Wray "Focusing: a Dual Systems Account for the Apparent Hemispheric Lateralisation of Language"
Mary Spann "Code-Switching amongst Bilingual (Punjabi-English) Nursery School Children: Co-operation and Conflict in Relation to Familiarity"
"Conversational Strategies: Towards a Phonological Description of Projection in Akyem-Twi"
Theresa Chisanga "An Investigation into the Form and Function of Educated English in Zambia as a Possible Indigenized Non-native Variety"
1985
Kasefu Kazadi-Mukenge "An Investigation of Code-mixing: Exemplified from Swahili and French"
Abdulmunim Al-Nasser "Sibawayh the Phonologist"
1984
Kabuya Nkulu "Alternative Grammatical Analyses of Zairean Copperbelt Swahili: Some Refutations and Phrase Structure Proposals"
Pat Ndukwe "Planning for Standard Varieties in Two Nigerian Languages"
Latilla Woodburn "The Communicative Function of Humour: A Ƶapp of Smiling and Laughter in the Pre-verbal Child"
1983
Michael Lumsden "Syntactic and Semantic Properties of Existential Sentences"
Terence McKay "Infinitival Complements in German: lassen, scheinen and the Verbs of Perception"
"The Syntax of Serial Verbs"
Joanna Channell "Vague Language: Some Vague Expressions in English"
Kit-ken Loke "A psycholinguistic study of shape features in Chinese (Mandarin) sortal classifiers"
1982
"Tense and Aspect in Guyanese Creole: A Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis"
"An Examination of Aspects of Modern Theories and Practice of Foreign Language Teaching and Their Applicability to English Language Teaching in China"
1981
Shahin Owrang "A Linguistic Analysis of New Lexical Items in Persian"
Bello Salim "Linguistic Borrowing as External Evidence in Phonology: The Assimilation of English Loanwords in Hausa"
Margaret Maclure "Making Sense of Children's Talk: Structure and Strategy in Adult-child Conversation"
1980
Paul Meara "Syntactic Structure and Its Effects on Performance in a Second Language"
Jamal Abdulla "Some Aspects of Language Purism among Kurdish Speakers"
1970s
Theses completed in the 1970s
1979
Stephen Lubega "The effect of the nature and amount of exposure on language learning: a study based on the English language proficiency of students in six Ugandan schools."
Rama Kant Agnihotri "The processes of assimilation: a sociolinguistic study of Sikh children in Leeds."
Joan Russell "A sociolinguistic study of a Swahili-speaking community in Mombasa."
1978
Hubert Devonish "The selection and codification of a widely understood and publicly useable language variety in Guyana, to be used as a vehicle of national development."
R Gupta "A sociolinguistic study of the use of mixed Hindi-English in metropolitan Delhi."
1975
"Sociolinguistic behaviour in rural and urban circumstances in Guyana."
"Parallel studies in first and second language acquisition in German."
1974
Eli Wesana-Chomi "Subordinate adverbial clauses in English and Swahili: a descriptive-comparative study."
Pushpakumara Premaratne "Some aspects of the Vanni dialect of Sinhalese as contrasted with the dialect of the western region of Sri Lanka."
1973
Ruth Mukama "A comparative analysis of some features of transitivity in Bantu languages with special reference to Kiswahili and Lugwere."
Kaluwachchimulle Mahanama Some aspects of Bhartrhari's linguistic theory as represented in the Vakyapadiya."
Colville Young "Belize Creole: a study of the Creolized English spoken in the city of Belize, in its cultural and social setting.
Nicolas Hawkes "The written English of Ghanaian primary six pupils in relation to their exposure to English as a medium of spoken instruction."
Adikary Abhayasinghe "A morphological study of Sinhalese."
1972
John Green "The reflexive-passive relationship in Spanish."
Vennelakanti Prakasam "A systematic treatment of certain aspects of Telugu phonology."
"A sociolinguistic description of two communities in Trinidad."
1971
Prajapati Sah "A generative semantic treatment of some aspects of English and Hindi grammar."
Elaine Wijasuriya "A sociolinguistic study of some speakers in a contact situation in Malaysia."
1970
Anil Sinha "Predicate complement constructions in Hindi and English."
1960s
Theses completed in the 1960s
1969
Jamal Abdulla "Diglossic bilingualism in Iraq."
Pauline Christie "A socio-linguistic study of some Dominican Creole-speakers."
1968
Hans Dua "The verbal piece in spoken Hindi: a morpho-syntactic study."