| Name | College | Research Topic | Supervisor | ||
| Auss | Abood | Lucy Cavendish | On the Advancement of Digital Disease Surveillance: A Context-Aware Language Model Approach |
Prof Nigel Collier | |
| Kim | Abramson | Lucy Cavendish | Examining Potential Development of a Linguistically and Culturally Respectful ESL-Like Framework for Variety Speakers | Prof Henriette Hendriks | |
| Alan | Ansell | Churchill | Learning to remember: enhanced long-term memory for natural language understanding | Prof Anna Korhonen | |
| Linda | Bakkouche | Lucy Cavendish | Defining The Role of Perceptual and Cognitive Individual Differences in L2 Speech Learning in Naturalistic Settings: L2 Speech Perception and Production. | Prof Brechtje Post | |
| Ema | Banerjee | Emmanuel | Licensing Ellipsis; Beyond Syntax | Prof Ian Roberts | |
| Núria | Bosch Masip | John's | On the role of granularity in language acquisition and change Name of PhD Programme Linguistics (MMLL) | Prof Bert Vaux | Dr Theresa Biberauer |
| Nuphak | Charoensirisoonthorn | Christ's | The Use of Future Expressions in English Writing by L1 Thai Learners: A Corpus-based Study | Prof Henriette Hendriks | |
| Yidie | Cheng | Newnham | Linguistic distance and second language acquisition: a morphosyntactic aspect | Dr Dora Alexopoulou | |
| Hannah | Claus | Robinson | EQUATE - Advancing Cross-Linguistic Semantic Interoperability for Globally Equitable Language Models |
Prof Anna Korhonen | |
| Stephanie | Cooper | Jesus | Individual factors affecting foreign accent comprehension | Prof Brechtje Post | |
| Joe | Cowan | Darwin | The effect of guided play on linguistic skills: from the psycholinguistics laboratory to the classroom | Prof Napoleon Katsos | Prof Jenny Gibson |
| Yoana | Dancheva | Fitzwilliam | Processing differences in habitual and non-habitual Bulgarian-English code-switchers | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli | |
| Anna | Danilova | Peterhouse | Project title Syntactic typology of non-finite verbal adjuncts | Dr Marieke Meelen | |
| Nora | Dehmke | Wolfson | Voice in Insular Celtic | Dr Marieke Meelen | |
| Yijang | Dong | Clare Hall | Personalization of Large Language Models | Prof Nigel Collier | |
| Kajetan | Dymkiewicz | Fitzwilliam | Towards Robust Reasoning in Language Models via Mechanistic Interpretability |
Dr Ivan Vulic | Dr Helen Yannakoudakis |
| Marco | Fioratti | Sidney Sussex | MICROVARIATION IN NON-VERIDICAL INVERSION | Prof Ian Roberts | |
| Panagiotis | Fytas | Robinson | Natural Language Processing-powered Prognostication and Decision Support for Clinical Management of COVID-19. |
Prof Anna Korhonen | |
| Luca | Gal | Christ's | The replication of Evaluative Morphology in Romance–non-Romance language contact | Dr Marieke Meelen | Prof Adam Ledgeway |
| Chenming | Gao | Wolfson | The role of language contact in the historical development of Mongolic languages | Prof Bert Vaux | |
| Sarah | Gordon | Trinity Hall | Word order variation and change in British Sign Language and the effect of the acquisition context | Dr Marieke Meelen | |
| Yiyang | Guo | Trinity | Countability in the domain of events | Prof Ian Roberts | Dr Theresa Biberauer |
| Nina | Haket | Trinity Hall | Deconstructing Conceptual Engineering: Amelioration through Functional Dynamic Propositions | Prof Kasia Jaszczolt | |
| Tiancheng | Hu | Clare Hall | Assessing Biased Language Use with Large Language Models | Prof Nigel Collier | |
| Songbo | Hu | Girton | Building coherent open-domain dialogue systems | Prof Anna Korhonen | |
| Shanshan | Hu | Wolfson | The acquisition of Chinese perfective motion events | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli | |
| Zheng | Hui | Hughes Hall | Evaluation and Mitigation of Bias and Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs) |
Prof Nigel Collier | |
| Elena | Isolani | Sidney Sussex | The Parametric Comparison Method: a synchronic and diachronic analysis on the complementizer phrase of Italo-Romance dialects |
Prof Ian Roberts | Prof Adam Ledgeway |
| Ka Ho (Arthur) | Kan | Darwin | Argument Structure in Childhood Bilingualism - the case of Resultative | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli | |
| Dimitrios | Kastanas | Wolfson | Studying on-line Sentence Processing in High-Functional Children within the Autism Spectrum Disorder | Prof Napoleon Katsos | Dr Andrew Thwaites |
| Benjamin | Lafond | King's | Syllable structure in Indo-European | Prof Bert Vaux | Prof James Clackson |
| Emily | Lau | Jesus | Dissecting and Synthesizing Dramatic Speech | Prof Brechtje Post | Dr Kate Knill |
| Daniel | Lee | St John's | Fake speech: Generating and detecting convincing voice impersonations by humans and machines | Dr Kirst McDougall | Dr Anil Alexander |
| Shue Sum | Leung | Downing | How do task types affect comprehension performance for English learners of different proficiency levels? | Dr Dora Alexopoulou | |
| Zongqian | Li | Jesus | Improve Data-driven Design-to-Device Materials Discovery Pipeline for Lead-free Perovskite Solar Cells via Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning | Prof Nigel Collier | |
| Chengzu | Li | Robinson | Towards Reliable Multimodal Spatial Reasoning | Dr Ivan Vulic | |
| Yaoyiran | Li | St John's | Code the Comprehension: Towards Better Representation Learning | Prof Anna Korhonen | |
| Yan | Liao | Clare Hall | An investigation into bilingual Shanghainese-Mandarin children’s linguistic and cognitive development | Prof Henriette Hendriks | |
| Yinhong | Liu | Corpus Christi | Natural Language Generation with Discourse-level Constraints | Prof Nigel Collier | |
| Sankrithi | Loganathan | Newnham | Assessing Impact of Translingual Pedagogic Materials on Indian ESL Teachers’ Classroom Practices and Learners’ Reading Comprehension |
Prof Ianthi Tsimpli | |
| Xinbing | Luo | Lucy Cavendish | Incidental learning of tone sandhi: From artificial language learning to connectionist modeling | Prof Brechtje Post | Prof John Williams |
| Sharan | Maiya | Fitzwilliam | Large Language Models for Decision-Making Under Risk in Climate Science | Prof Anna Korhonen | |
| Iurii | Makarov | Gonville & Caius | The laryngeal phonetics and phonology of understudied Iranian languages in the Pamirs and Caucasus |
Prof Bert Vaux | |
| Paul | Martin | St John's | Towards Modular and Efficient Natural Language Processing | Dr Ivan Vulic | Dr Edoardo Ponti |
| Benjamin | Minixhofer | Trinity | Flexible and Reusable Language Models | Dr Ivan Vulic | |
| Chloe | Patman | Darwin | The phonetics of female speech: redressing the sex imbalance in forensic speech science research | Dr Kirst McDougall | Prof Paul Foulkes |
| Alice | Paver | Jesus | Investigating the phonetic and perceptual underpinnings of voice distinctiveness and voice quality | Dr Kirst McDougall | |
| Anastasiia | Petrenko | Newnham | Time flow and intervals: the case of now in English and Russian | Prof Kasia Jaszczolt | |
| Fangning | Ren | Downing | An interface-based analysis of the Mandarin wh-fronting construction | Prof Ian Roberts | Dr Theresa Biberauer |
| Lucas Emanuel | Resck Domingues | Girton | Temporal Refinement, Multilingual Knowledge Transfer, and Efficient Prompting in Language Models |
Prof Anna Korhonen | |
| Leonardo | Russo Cardona | Gonville & Caius | Voice and non-canonical passives: a Greaco-Romance comparative analysis | Prof Ian Roberts | Prof Ioanna Sitaridou |
| Shun | Shao | Lucy Cavendish | Mitigating Stereotypes in Pretrained Language Models: Towards Robust and Equitable Natural Language Processing | Prof Anna Korhonen | |
| Lin | Shen | Wolfson | Constrained language: The impact of inter-typological variations in path expressions on L2 acquisition and translation | Prof Henriette Hendriks | |
| Yibing | Shi | King's | Tone sandhi across Chinese Wu dialects | Prof Brechtje Post | Prof Francis Nolan |
| Yijun | Shi | Newnham | Phonological and morphological similarities between Cantonese and Southwest Mandarin varieties from sociolinguistic and historical perspectives | Prof Henriette Hendriks | |
| Chang | Shu | Hughes Hall | Knowledge Grounded Dialogue Agents | Prof Nigel Collier | |
| Sanhanat | Sivapiromrat | Lucy Cavendish | Exploring the Challenges of Question Interactions in Large Language Models and Vision-Language Models | Prof Nigel Collier | |
| Jye | Smallwood | Girton | The Role of L1 Typology and L2 Proficiency on Null Subject Transfer | Dr Dora Alexopoulou | |
| Hannah | Sterz | Churchill | Multimodal and Multilingual Language Models | Dr Ivan Vulic | |
| Katelyn | Taylor | Darwin | Beyond Binary: Analysing Linguistic Gender Cues, AI Speech Modification, and Facial Perception on Speaker Identification |
Dr Kirst McDougall | |
| Charikleia | Triantafyllidou | Downing | The Role of Prosody and Socioeconomic Status in Reading Comprehension |
Prof Ianthi Tsimpli | |
| Yutong | Wang | Jesus | Contrast Neutralisation and Preservation: a case of Bejing retroflex suffixation | Prof Brechtje Post | Dr Mitko Sabev |
| Zuzanna | Witkowska | King's | The impact of proficiency and learning context on linguistic sources of miscommunication in native/non-native interaction | Prof Henriette Hendriks | |
| Songqiao | Xie | Fitzwilliam | Toward Conversational Question Answering Agents with Multi-source Heterogeneous Knowledge | Prof Napoleon Katsos | Dr Andrew Thwaites |
| Wenhan | Xie | Homerton | The Impact of Multilingualism on Social Cohesion | Prof Henriette Hendriks | |
| Liu (Willow) | Yang | Newnham | Functional categories in nominal coordination: on number and structural variations | Prof Ian Roberts | |
| Caiqi | Zhang | Murray Edwards | Uncertainty Estimation in Large Language Models |
Prof Nigel Collier | |
| Meiru | Zhang | Pembroke | Early Detection of Epidemic Outbreaks from Social Media using Multimodal Low-resource Learning | Prof Nigel Collier | |
| Tianyi | Zheng | Queen's | Transforming pedagogical practices for academic success | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli | |
| Han | Zhou | Downing | Building Multilingual Multi-Domain Dialogue Systems | Prof Anna Korhonen | |
| Yijie | Zhou | Hughes Hall | Mitigating Bias through Transfer Learning for Low-Resourced Languages | Prof Anna Korhonen | |
For recent PhD awardees, please see here.
