Study on Grammatical Competence and Performance
At least one placement (and perhaps more) will be created to assist with a new research project (working with Melinda Whong and Diane Nelson) which...
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Linguistics & Phonetics collection for the Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
This project will set up our collection of objects for inclusion in the University’s Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. The tasks...
The Linguistic Survey of India
The Department has in its possession a complete first edition of Sir George A. Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India in 19 volumes, published in Calcutta...
What do pupils think about the way teachers use language in the classroom?
This project is part of a larger enquiry into the language teachers use in secondary school classrooms when addressing pupil behaviour. All schools in the...
COMPLETED: Testing the acceptability of noun-noun compounds
English uses compounds very productively. Most of the time, when you put two nouns together, the resulting compound can be interpreted in some way (e.g....
What is the extent of /r/-colouring on Dutch vowels?
This project investigates the acoustics of vowels that are followed by /r/ in Dutch. It is well-known that postvocalic /r/ has a ‘colouring’ effect on...
COMPLETED: In which positions do native speakers of French accept dislocated topics?
French topics normally appear at the beginning or the end of the sentence, as underlined in the examples below. (1) Le chocolat, j’adore ça. (2)...
COMPLETED: Does gestural and verbal redundancy speed reference resolution?
How does the integration of speech and gesture occur in the development of communication? This study investigates the effect of referential redundancy, i.e. giving more...