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(PhD reference number: #1455833)
PhD opportunities:
Projects in this area will focus on the experimental investigation of language – how it is acquired by children and processed by typical adults. Projects may employ experimental methodologies including both offline behavioural methods and online methods, as well as corpus methods.
Contact: Dr Juliana Gerard
Contact: Dr Juliana Gerard
We welcome applications to study any aspect of the morpho- syntax of any language from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Both theoretically informed projects within the framework of Generative Grammar and descriptive projects would be suitable. Applicants are invited to contact potential supervisors for more specific information on appropriate research questions.
Contact: Professor Raffaella Folli
Contact: Professor Raffaella Folli
Projects on Multilingualism may address questions about the impact of internal and external factors in predicting language outcomes; further questions include issues of input quantity vs quality, and outcomes across languages and language domains.
Contact: Dr Christina Sevdali
Contact: Dr Christina Sevdali
We welcome projects with a focus on developing our understanding of the nature or presentation of language and communication impairments in both adults and paediatric populations or in the development of linguistic assessment or intervention for these groups.
Contact: Dr Lynda Kennedy
Contact: Dr Lynda Kennedy
Projects in this area will focus on meaning through a theoretical and/or experimental approach, investigating semantic phenomena and their interfaces with pragmatics and syntax.
Contact: Dr Richard Stockwell
Contact: Dr Richard Stockwell
This thematic area includes both work in discourse and social interaction and areas of macro sociolinguistics relating to multilingual and migrant communities, language policy and language planning.
Contact: Dr Philip McDermott
Contact: Dr Philip McDermott