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Postgraduate Study in Linguistics

Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

 

Recent PhD Graduates in Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

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


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