Name | College | Thesis Title | Year | Supervisor |
Alex Cairncross | Churchill College | L1-Attrition of Pronominal Reference and (Pseudo)Relative Clause Parsing in Italian | 2023 | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli |
Andromachi Tsoukala | Queens' College | The Role of Prediction in Reading | 2023 | Prof Ianthi M. Tsimpli, Prof Zoe Kourtzi, and Dr Margreet Vogelzang |
Anthony Li | Girton College | The Domain-Specificity of Task-Switching in Multilingualism: a Study on Cantonese-Mandarin-English | 2024 | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli |
Chenyi Zhang | Trinity Hall | Individual differences in Text-Picture Integration | 2024 | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli |
Chrysoula (Lina) Vassiliu | Magdalene College | Individual Differences in Multilingualism and Language Learning: Effects on Cognitive Flexibility and Structure Learning | 2023 | Prof Henriette Hendriks and Prof Zoe Kourtzi |
Evgeniia Razumovskaia | Queens' College | Making dialog systems controllable, interpretable and generalizable by incorporating structure into end-to-end systems | 2024 | Prof Anna Korhonen |
Fanghua Zheng | Girton College | How Plurality is Encoded in Mandarin Chinese Noun Phrases | 2025 | Prof Ian Roberts and Dr Theresa Biberauer |
James Algie | King's College | Corpus-based and Experimental Approaches to Second Language Acquisition | 2025 | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli |
Jasper Sim | Jesus College | Phonological Acquisition of Contact varieties of English in Simultaneous Bilinguals | 2022 | Prof Brechtje Post |
Jodie Webber | Darwin College | Linguistic and cognitive effects of a mobile teaching kitchens intervention (nutrition education) | 2024 | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli and Prof Sumantra (Shumone) Ray |
Julia Schwarz | Jesus College | Separate, Combined, or Parallel Routes? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Complex Word Processing | 2023 | Prof Brechtje Post |
Kateryna Derkach | Fitzwilliam College | The Acquisition of Articles in L2 English | 2023 | Dr Dora Alexpoulou |
Kechun (Katrina) Li | Churchill College | Prosodic focus in Chinese dialects | 2024 | Prof Brechtje Post and Prof Francis Nolan |
Linda Gerlach | Selwyn College | Selection of similar speakers based on perceptual judgements and measured features for forensic applications | 2025 | Dr Kirsty McDougall |
Madeleine Rees | Pembroke College | Individual variability dictating integration of speech production and perception systems in Spanish & English-speaking bilinguals | 2024 | Prof Brechtje Post and Dr Matt Davis |
Mandy Wigdorowitz | St John's College | Linguistic and Cognitive Effects of Contextual and Individual Linguistic Diversity: Multilingualism in South Africa and the United Kingdom | 2022 | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli |
Marinela Parovic | Trinity College | Cross-lingual NLP and language modelling | 2023 | Prof Anna Korhonen |
Mireia Cabanes-Calabuig | Downing College | Semantics and pragmatics of expressive language | 2024 | Prof Kasia Jaszczolt |
Stefania Costea | St John's College | The effects of contact on Moldovan Daco-Romanian syntax | 2024 | Prof Adam Ledgeway |
Ulla Petti | Trinity College | Detecting Alzheimer's Disease from Semantic Verbal Fluency | 2024 | Prof Anna Korhonen |
Victor Prokhorov | Selwyn College | Inducing Semantic Embeddings for Unseen Words with Artificial Neural Networks | 2021 | Dr Nigel Collier |
Yixin Zhang | Selwyn College | L1 Development of Lexical Tone from an Interactive and Parallel Perspective | 2021 | Prof Brechtje Post and Dr Elaine Schmidt |
Yuyan Xue | Trinity College | Implicit/explicit semiartificial L2 learning effects on motion event conceptualization: online and offline effects | 2025 | Prof John Williams |
Hanna Danbolt Ajer | Trinity Hall | Putting PPs into order – Understanding prepositionality in the predominantly postpositional language Lule Sami | 2023 | Dr Theresa Biberauer |
Giulia Bovolenta | Jesus College | 'Developing production skills through implicit learning' | 2020 | Dr John Williams |
Kerri-Ann Butcher | King's College | The MOAN-MOWN and MOAN-GOOSE mergers in Lowestoft English: Perception and production | 2023 | Prof Bert Vaux |
Rodanthi Christofaki | Corpus Christi College | 'Projected self: the de se across dimensions and beyond pronouns' | 2020 | Prof Ianthi Tsimpli |
Costanza Conforti | Fitzwilliam College | Cross Target Generalization for Stance Detection (in collaboration with DREAM - CDT in Data, Risk, and Environmental Analytical Methods) | 2023 | Prof Nigel Collier |
Gamal Crichton | St. Edmund's College | 'Improving automated literature-based discovery with neural networks neural biomedical named entity recognition, link prediction and discovery' | 2019 | Prof Anna Korhonen and Dr Nigel Collier |
Sarah Crockford | Trinity College | 'Neural correlates and patterns of language use in bilingual autistic individuals' | 2023 | Dr Napoleon Katsos |
Julia Heine | Trinity College | Out of Action? – Re-evaluating Methodological Challenges in Embodied Semantics Research | 2023 | Prof John Williams |
Katie Howard | Jesus College | When bilingualism meets autism: the perspectives and experiences of children, parents and educational practitioners | 2020 | Dr Napoleon Katsos |
Drasko Kascelan | Trinity College | 'Prevalence of autistic-like traits in general population bilingual and monolingual samples and their effect on cognition and metaphor processing/interpretation' | 2020 | Dr Napoleon Katsos |
Sana Kidwai | Fitzwilliam College | Voice, Case and the External Argument: The perspective from Urdu | 2024 | Dr Theresa Biberauer and Prof Ian Roberts |
Tim Laméris | St John's College | Non-native perception, production, and lexical processing of tone | 2022 | Prof Brechtje Post |
Qianchu (Flora) Liu | Peterhouse College | On the Modelling and Evaluation of Context-sensitive Lexical Semantics | 2023 | Prof Anna Korhonen |
Olga Majewska | Corpus Christi College | Acquiring and Harnessing Verb Knowledge for Multilingual Natural Language Processing | 2021 | Prof Anna Korhonen |
Oliver Mayeux | Peterhouse College | 'Rethinking decreolization: language contact and change in Louisiana Creole' | 2019 | Prof Mari Jones |
Javier Moreno-Rivero | St Edmund's College | Translation Policies of Minoritised Languages through Organised Activism: a Comparative Study of Catalan and Welsh | 2023 | Prof Wendy Bennett |
Li Nguyen | Cross-generational linguistic variation in the Canberra Vietnamese heritage language community: a corpus-centred investigation | 2022 | Prof Henriette Hendriks & Dr Theresa Biberauer | |
Athina Ntalli | Murray Edward's College | 'The acquisition of finiteness in English by child second language learners in instructed contexts: age of onset and L1 effects' | 2021 | Prof Henriette Hendriks and Dr Dora Alexopoulou |
Edoardo Ponti | St. John's College | 'Inductive bias and modular design for sample-efficient neural language learning' | 2021 | Prof Anna Korhonen |
Samantha Sie | Newnham College | Investigating the role of an indigenised variety of English in the acquisitional and sociolinguistic contexts of the Malaysian ecology | 2023 | Prof Ianthi M. Tsimpli |
Chenchen (Julio) Song | Gonville & Caius College | 'On the formal flexibility of syntactic categories' | 2019 | Prof Ian Roberts and Dr Theresa Biberauer |
Kayeon Yoo | King's College | 'The production and perception of domain-initial strengthening in Seoul, Busan and Ulsan Korean' | 2021 | Prof Francis Nolan |
For current PhD students, please see here.