PhD Theses awarded 1976 - 1996

The main list is arranged alphabetically by author: A-C, D-G, H-M, N-R, S-Z. You can also see a list arranged by year.

• Abangma, S. (1992) Empty Categories in Denya.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Abberton, E. (1976) A Laryngographic Study of Voice Quality.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Adjaye, S. (1987) The Pronunciation of English in Ghana.
  Supervisor: A.C. Gimson/J.C. Wells
• Agouraki, Y. (1993) Spec-Head Licensing: The Scope of the Theory.
  Supervisor: M. Brody
• Ahmed, A. (1982) The Communicative Relevance of Intonation in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic.
  Supervisor:
• Anderman, G. (1978) Aspects of Complementation and its Implication for a Theory of Subordination: A Generative Study of Comparative Germanic Syntax with Special Reference to Swedish.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith.
• Awonusi, V. (1985) Sociolinguistic Variation in Nigerian (Lagos) English.
  Supervisor: J.C. Wells
• Barton, D. (1976) The Role of Perception in the Acquisition of Phonology.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Basalamah, M.S. (1990) A Study of Certain Aspects of the Suprasegmentals of Arabic and their Influence on the English Pronunciation of Arab Teachers of English in the Western Zone of Saudi Arabia.
  Supervisor: J. Baldwin
• Baskaran, L. (1987) Aspects of Malaysian English Syntax.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Benrabah, M. (1988) The Intelligibility of Algerian Speakers of English: A Phonetic and Phonological Study.
  Supervisor: J. Maidment
• Benrabah, N. (1990) Algerian Intonational Proficiency in English: An Empirical Study.
  Supervisor: S. Ramsaran.
• Betts, A. (1990) German Impersonal Passives.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith/M. Brody
• Blakemore, D. (1986) Semantic Constraints on Relevance.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Blass, R. (1988) Discourse Connectivity and Constraints on Relevance in Sissala.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Bo, Shi (1990) A Speech Synthesis-by-Rule System for Modern Standard Chinese.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Breen, A. (1991) An Investigation into Synthesis-by-Analysis.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Brockhaus, W. (1992) Final Devoicing: Principles and Parameters.
  Supervisor: J. Harris
• Brody, M. (1984) Conditions and NP-types.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Bull, B. (1991) The Non-linear Phonological Structure of Moroccan Colloquial Arabic.
  Supervisor (external): N.V. Smith
• Cabrera-Abreu, M. (1996) A Phonological Model for Intonation without Low Tone.
  Supervisor: J. Maidment
• Carlson, E. (1995) A Study of Voice Quality in Irradiated Laryngeal Cancer Patients, Tumour Stages T1 and T2.
  Supervisor: E. Abberton
• Chekili, F. (1982) The Morphology of the Arabic Dialect of Tunis.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Cheung, K.-H. (1986) The Phonology of Present-day Cantonese.
  Supervisor: J.C. Wells
• Chiat, S. (1978) The Analysis of Children's Pronouns: An Investigation into the Prerequisites for Linguistic Knowledge.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith.
• Ching Yuk Ching, T. (1981) Communication of Lexical Tone Patterns in Cantonese.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Clark, W. (1991) Relevance Theory and the Semantics of Non-declaratives.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Cormack, A. (1989) The Syntax and Semantics of Definitions.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Derbyshire, D. (1979) Hixkaryana Syntax.
  Supervisor: G.K. Pullum
• Ejele, P. (1986) Transitivity, Tense and Aspect in Esan (Ishan).
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith.
• Fawcett, R. (1979) Cognitive Linguistics and Social Interaction.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Ferrar, M. (1993) The Logic of the Ludicrous.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Fraser, N. (1993) Dependency Parsing.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Furlong, A. (1996) Relevance Theory and Literary Interpretation.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• García-Lecumberri, M-L. (1995) Intonational Signalling of Information Structure in English and Spanish: a Comparative Study.
  Supervisor (external): J. Maidment
• Giejgo, J. (1981) Movement Rules in Polish Syntax.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Golding, E. (1976)
• Gorayska, B. (1987) The Semantics and Pragmatics of English and Polish with reference to Aspect.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Grice, M. (1992) The Intonation of Interrogation in Palermo Italian; Implications for Intonation Theory
  Supervisor: J. House
• Groefsema, M. (1992) Processing for Relevance: A Pragmatically based Account of how we Process Natural Language.
  Supervisor: M. Black
• Gutt, E.-A. (1991) Translation and Relevance.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Haacke, W. (1993) The Tonology of Khoekhoe (Nama/Damara).
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Hazan, V. (1986) Speech Pattern Audiometric Assessment of Hearing-impaired Children.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Heliel, M. (1977) Rhythm in Arabic.
  Supervisor: J.D. O'Connor
• Holm, J. (1978) The Creole English of Nicaragua's Miskito Coast: Its Sociolinguistic History and a Comparative Study of its Lexicon and Syntax.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Holmes, F. (1995) A Study of Dominance in Speech Perception and Production by German-English Bilinguals
  Supervisor: V. Hazan
• Howard, D. (1985) Larynx Frequency Speech Processing for Cochlear Stimulation.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Howard, I.S. (1991) Speech Fundaamental Period Estimation using Pattern Classification.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Huckvale, M. (1984) An Interactive Speech Pattern Audiometer.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Ifantidou, E. (1994) Evidentials and Relevance.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Itani, R. (1995) Semantic and Pragmatics of Hedges in English and Japanese.
  Supervisor: R. Carston
• Jahangiri, N. (1980) A Sociolinguistic Study of Tehrani Persian.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Jiang, Y. (1995) Local Dependency and Quantification in Chinese.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Johnson, M. (1993) The Form and Auditory Control of Downward Trends in Intonation.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Judge, A. (1976)
• Karas, M. (1985) The Vocabulary of Turkish Newspapers.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Klavans, J. (1980) Some Problems in a Theory of Clitics.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith.
• Leather, J. (1988) Speech Pattern Elements in Second Language Acquisition: Perception and Production of Chinese Tonal Contrasts.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Lee, Ho-young (1990) The Structure of Korean Prosody.
  Supervisor: J.C. Wells
• Lyons, C. (1978) The Historical Development of the Article in Romance.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Madeira, A. (1995) Topics in Portuguese Syntax: The Licensing of T and D.
  Supervisor: R. Manzini
• Mapanje, J. (1983) On the Interpretation of Aspect and Tense in Chiyao, Chichewa and English.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Marthandan, C. (1983) The Phonetics of Casual Tamil.
  Supervisor: J.C. Wells
• Matsui, T. (1995) Bridging and Relevance.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson.
• McBrearty, J. (1980) Initial Mutation in Modern Irish and its Implications for Phonological Theory.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Miller, N. (1993) Towards a Clinical Assessment of Acquired Speech Dyspraxia.
  Supervisor: E. Abberton
• Morris, R. (1984) Aspect, Case and Thematic Structure in English.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Moto, F. (1989) Phonology of the Bantu Lexicon.
  Supervisor: J. Harris
• Mtenje, A. (1986) Issues in the Non-linear Phonology of Chichewa.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Murray, D. (1985) Language and Interests.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Murray, D.K. (1982) Precision Measurement of Surface Acoustic Wave Velocity.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Neate, D. (1985) A Descriptive Study of the Speech of Severely and Profoundly Hearing-impaired Children, with special reference to Hearing Loss.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin.
• Ouhalla, J. (1988) The Syntax of Head Movement: A Study of Berber.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Öztekin, H. (1987) Clausal Complementation in Turkish.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Pagoni, S. (1993) Modern Greek Phonological Variation: A Government Phonology Approach.
  Supervisor: J. Harris/J.C. Wells
• Palyza, M. (1979)
• Paterson, S. (1983) Voice and Transitivity.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Phillips, E. (1983)
• Pilkington, A. (1994) Poetic Thoughts and Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Account of the Literary Use of Rhetorical Tropes and Schemes.
  Supervisor: R. Carston
• Pooley, T. (1988) A Sociolinguistic Study of Roubaix.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Pullum, G.K. (1976) Rule Interaction and the Organization of a Grammar.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Ramsaran, S. (1978) Phonetic and Phonological Correlates of Style in English: a Preliminary Investigation
  Supervisor: A. C. Gimson
• Rees, O. (1976)
• Roberts, J. (1986) Amele Grammar.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Rosen, S. (1988) Speech Perception with Single-channel Cochlear Implants.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Rouchota, V. (1994) The Semantics and Pragmatics of the Subjunctive in Modern Greek: A Relevance-theoretic Approach.
  Supervisor: R. Carston
• Roussou, A. (1994) The Syntax of Complementisers.
  Supervisor: R. Manzini
• Scanlan, J. (1988) Analysis of Avian 'Speech' Patterns and Production.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Scully, C. (1990) Speech Production Modelling with particular Reference to English.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Simon, C. (1977) A Developmental Study of Acoustic Pattern Production and Perception in Voiced-Voiceless Oppositions.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Tamrazian, A. (1994) The Syntax of Armenian: Chains and the Auxiliary.
  Supervisor: M. Brody
• Taylor, J. (1988) A Sociolinguistic Study of Local Accent in Aix-en-Provence.
  Supervisor: J.C. Wells
• Tingsabadh, K. (1980) A Phonological Study of Suphanburi Thai.
  Supervisor: A.C. Gimson
• Tsimpli, I.-M. (1992) Functional Categories and Maturation: The Prefunctional Stage of Language Acquisition.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Tzanidaki, D. (1996) {Viva pending}
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Ufomata, T. (1986) The Phonological Influence of English upon Yoruba.
  Supervisor: M. Ashby
• Waring, H. (1976) The Intonation of Modern Greek.
  Supervisor: J.T. Pring
• Wei, Jianing (1993) A Speech-Pattern Processing Method for Chinese Listeners with Profound Hearing Loss.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Wilder, C. (1987) The Syntax of German Infinitives.
  Supervisor: M. Brody/N.V. Smith
• Wood, M. (1988) A Categorial Syntax for Coordinate Constructions.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Xydopoulos, G. (1996) Tense, Aspect and Adverbials in Modern Greek.
  Supervisor: R. Manzini
• Zegarac, V. (1991) Tense, Aspect and Relevance.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith

1976		Abberton	Barton		Golding
		Judge		Pullum		Rees
		Waring

1977		Heliel		Simon

1978		Anderman	Chiat		Holm
		Lyons		Ramsaran

1979		Derbyshire 	Fawcett		Palyza

1980		Jahangiri	Klavans		McBrearty
		Tingsabadh

1981		Ching 		Giejgo		

1982		Ahmed		Chekili		Murray, D.K.

1983		Mapanje		Marthandan 	Paterson
		Phillips

1984		Brody		Huckvale	Morris

1985		Awonusi		Howard, D. 	Karas
		Murray, D.	Neate

1986		Blakemore	Cheung		Ejele	
		Hazan		Mtenje		Roberts
		Ufomata

1987		Adjaye		Baskaran	Gorayska
		Öztekin		Wilder

1988		Benrabah, M. 	Blass		Leather
		Ouhalla		Pooley		Rosen
		Scanlan		Taylor		Wood	

1989		Cormack		Moto

1990		Basalamah	Benrabah, N.	Betts
		Bo Shi		Lee		Scully

1991		Bull		Breen		Clark		
		Gutt		Howard, I.S.	Zegarac

1992		Abangma		Brockhaus	Grice
		Groefsema	Tsimpli

1993		Agouraki	Ferrar		Fraser 
		Haacke		Johnson 	Miller
		Pagoni		Wei

1994		Ifantidou	Pilkington	Rouchota	
		Roussou		Tamrazian

1995		García-Lecumberri 		Itani
		Jiang		Madeira		Matsui
		Carlson		Holmes

1996		Cabrera-Abreu	Furlong		Xydopoulos
		(Tzanidaki)

List compiled by N.V.Smith. Page created 1996 June 06