
Name | College | Research Topic | Supervisor |
Hanna Danbolt Ajer | Trinity Hall | Adpositions in the Uralic language Lule Sámi - an Investigation of the Distribution of Ambipositions | |
James Algie | King's College | Corpus-based and Experimental Approaches to Second Language Acquisition | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli |
Alan Ansell | Churchill College | Learning to remember: enhanced long-term memory for natural language understanding | Prof Anna Korhonen |
Linda Bakkouche | Lucy Cavendish College | The role of auditory and cognitive individual differences in second language speech learning. | Prof Brechtje Post |
Carlos Balhana | Fitzwilliam College | Deep Learning of Semantic Models of Second-Language English Learners | Prof Brechtje Post |
Ema Banerjee | Emmanuel College | Licensing Ellipsis; Beyond Syntax | Prof Ian Roberts |
Kerri-Ann Butcher | King's College | A Sociophonological Approach to Understanding Language Variation in Suffolk | Prof Bert Vaux |
Mireia Cabanes-Calabuig | Downing College | Semantics and pragmatics of expressive language | Prof Kasia Jaszczolt |
Alex Cairncross | Churchill College | L1-Attrition of Pronominal Reference and (Pseudo)Relative Clause Parsing in Italian | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli |
Xiaoxuan Chen | Lucy Cavendish College | Reporting Nonliteralness: Propositional Attitude Reports and Figurative Language | Prof Kasia Jaszczolt |
Costanza Conforti | Fitzwilliam College | Rumour Mill: Measuring the Veracity of Rumours in the Social Media (in collaboration with DREAM - CDT in Data, Risk, and Environmental Analytical Methods) | Dr Nigel Collier |
Stefania Costea | St John's College | The effects of contact on Moldovan Daco-Romanian syntax | Prof Adam Ledgeway |
Joe Cowan | Darwin College | Dr Napoleon Katsos | |
Sarah Crockford | Trinity College | Multilingualism and Cognition: What Are the implications for autism spectrum conditions? | Dr Napoleon Katsos |
Kateryna 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 Anna Korhonen |
Linda Gerlach | Selwyn College | Selection of similar speakers based on perceptual judgements and measured features for forensic applications | Dr Kirsty McDougall |
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 |
Julia Heine | Trinity College | Processing Language Through the Body: The Necessity of Embodiment Processes | Prof John Williams |
Katie Howard | The School Experiences of Bilingual Children on the Autistic Spectrum | Dr Napoleon Katsos | |
Songbo Hu | Girton College | Building coherent open-domain dialogue systems | Prof Anna Korhonen |
Elena Isolani | Sidney Sussex College | The Parametric Comparison Method: a diachronic comparative analysis of Italian and Florentine | Prof Ian Roberts |
Ka Ho (Arthur) Kan | Darwin College | Argument Structure in Childhood Bilingualism - the case of Resultative | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli |
Sana Kidwai | Fitzwilliam College | The Role of Voice in Urdu Case | Dr Theresa Biberauer and Prof Ian Roberts |
Tim Laméris | St John's College | Learning Tones in an L2 | Prof Brechtje Post |
Emily Lau | Jesus College | Dissecting and Synthesizing Dramatic Affect | Prof Brechtje Post |
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 Brechtje Post and Prof Francis Nolan |
Yaoyiran Li | Robinson College | Code the Comprehension: Towards Better Representation Learning | Dr Anna Korhonen |
Fangyu Liu | Clare Hall | Topic Multi-modal and self-supervised language representation learning | Prof Nigel Collier |
Qianchu (Flora) Liu | Peterhouse College | Automatic Detection of Concreteness in Words | Dr Anna Korhonen |
Yinhong (William) Liu | Corpus Christi College | High-quality Multi-Sentence Text Generation from Knowledge Graph | Prof Nigel Collier |
Xusong Ma | Clare College | English Speakers' Acquisition of the V-DE Construction in L2 Mandarin Chinese | Dr Henriette Hendriks |
Ruijun (Melody) Ma | Darwin College | Investigating Childhood Bilingualism and Cross-Linguistic Influence | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli |
Olga Majewska | Corpus Christi College | Multi-Lingual Acquisition of Semantic-Syntactic Lexical Resources for Verbs | Prof Anna Korhonen |
Javier Moreno-Rivero | St Edmund's College | Translation Policies in Organised Activism for Minoritized Languages: A Comparison of Catalan and Welsh | Prof Wendy Bennett |
Li Nguyen | Matrix Language in a Corpus of Vietnamese-English Mixed Speech in Canberra, Australia | Dr Henriette Hendriks & Dr Theresa Biberauer | |
Marinela Parovic | Trinity College | Cross-lingual NLP and language modelling | Prof 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 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 Anna Korhonen |
Madeleine Rees | Pembroke College | Individual variability dictating integration of speech production and perception systems in Spanish & English-speaking bilinguals | Prof Brechtje Post and Dr Matt Davis |
Fangning Ren | Downing College | An Interface-based Approach to Analysing Wh-fronting Constructions in Mandarin Chinese | Prof Ian Roberts |
Leonardo Russo Cardona | Gonville & Caius College | Middle si constructions in Italian: evidence from non-finite clauses | Prof Ian Roberts |
Julia Schwarz | Jesus College | Separate, Combined, or Parallel Routes? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Complex Word Processing | Prof Brechtje Post |
Sadiyah Shahidullah | Newnham College | Rethinking Post-Gricean Categories of Meaning: Evidence from Arabic Linguistic-Pragmatic Thought and Arabic Discourse | Prof Kasia Jaszczolt |
Yibing Shi | Newnham College | Tone sandhi across Chinese Wu dialects | Prof Brechtje Post |
Chang Shu | Hughes Hall | Human-centered Natural Language Generation | Prof Nigel Collier |
Samantha Sie | Newnham College | The role of Manglish in the acquisition of English as a second language in Malaysia | Prof Ianthi M. Tsimpli |
Jasper Sim | Jesus College | Phonological Acquisition of Contact varieties of English in Simultaneous Bilinguals | Prof 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 Ianthi M. Tsimpli, Prof Zoe Kourtzi, and Dr Margreet Vogelzang |
Chrysoula (Lina) Vassiliu | Magdalene College | Individual Differences in Multilingualism and Language Learning: Effects on Cognitive Flexibility and Structure Learning | Prof Henriette Hendriks and Prof Zoe Kourtzi |
Jodie Webber | Darwin College | Linguistic and cognitive effects of a mobile teaching kitchens intervention (nutrition education) | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli and Prof Sumantra (Shumone) Ray |
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 Ianthi Tsimpli |
Zuzanna Witkowska | King's College | The impact of proficiency and learning context on linguistic sources of miscommunication in native/non-native interaction | Prof 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 and Dr Theresa Biberauer |
Chenyi Zhang | Trinity Hall | Individual differences in Text-Picture Integration | Prof 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 Brechtje Post and Dr Elaine Schmidt |
Fanghua Zheng | Girton College | How Plurality is Encoded in Mandarin Chinese Noun Phrases | Prof Ian Roberts and Dr Theresa Biberauer |
Tianyi Zheng | Queen's College | English literacy development in China's ethnic minority children | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli |
Yi Zhu | Clare Hall | LEXICAL Project |
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