MPhil and PhD Theses awarded 1976

(PhD unless indicated otherwise)

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
• Adlard, A. (2001) Speech Perceptual Acuity in Children with Reading Difficulty.
  Supervisor: V. Hazan
• 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.
• Aouad, A (1980) A sociolinguistic study of French loan-words in Algerian Arabic. (MPhil)
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson.
• Arad, M (1998) VP-structure and the Syntax-Lexicon Interface.
  Supervisor: M.R. Manzini
• Ashby, P (2002) Practical phonetics training and the nature of phonetic judgements.
  Supervisor: J.C.Wells
• Awonusi, V. (1985) Sociolinguistic Variation in Nigerian (Lagos) English.
  Supervisor: J.C. Wells
• Backley, P. (1998) Tier geometry: an explanatory model of vowel structure.
  Supervisor: J. Harris
• Banfi, C. (1999) A minimalist approach to clitics and clitic doubling in Spanish.
  Supervisor: R. Manzini
• 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
• Bhattacharya, T. (1999) The Structure of the Bangla DP.
  Supervisor: R. Manzini/N.V. Smith
• 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
• Breheny, R. (1999) Context Dependency and Procedural Meaning.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Broadbent, J. (1997) The Representation of coronal segments.
  Supervisor: R. Hayward (SOAS)
• 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
• Bury, D. (2003) Phrase Structure and Derived Heads.
  Supervisor: A. Neeleman
• Cabrera-Abreu, M. (1996) A Phonological Model for Intonation without Low Tone.
  Supervisor: J. Maidment
• Camdzic, A. (2004) On the Syntax of Long Verb Movement.
  Supervisor: A. Neeleman
• Carlson, E. (1995) A Study of Voice Quality in Irradiated Laryngeal Cancer Patients, Tumour Stages T1 and T2.
  Supervisor: E. Abberton
• Carston, R. (1998) Pragmatics and the Explicit /Implicit Distinction.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Chan, B. H.-S. (1999) Aspects of the Syntax, Production and Pragmatics of Code-Switching, with special reference to Cantonese.
  Supervisor: N.V.Smith
• 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
• Choo, W. (1996) Relationships between Phonetics, Perceptual and Auditory Spaces for Fricatives.
  Supervisor: M.A. Huckvale
• Chung, H. (2001) Analysis of the timing of spoken Korean with application to speech synthesis.
  Supervisor: M.A. Huckvale
• 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
• Curco, C. (1997) The Pragmatics of Humorous Interpretations: A Relevance-Theoretic Approach.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Davies, L. (2001) The Nature of Specific Language Impairment: Optionality and Principle Conflict.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Deeks, J. (2001) The Perception of Pitch and Timbre of Vowel-like Stimuli by the Profoundly Hearing-impaired.
  Supervisor: A. Faulkner
• Derbyshire, D. (1979) Hixkaryana Syntax.
  Supervisor: G.K. Pullum
• Ejele, P. (1986) Transitivity, Tense and Aspect in Esan (Ishan).
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith.
  
• Eppler, E. (2005) The Syntax of German-English Code-switching.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson.
• Estebas Vilaplana, E. (2000) The use and realisation of accentual focus in Central Catalan with a
  comparison to English.
  Supervisor: J.A. Maidment.
• Evans, Barrie. (1999) A Non-Coercing Account of Event Structure in Pular.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Evans, Bronwen. (2005) Plasticity in speech perception and production: A study of accent change in young adults.
  Supervisor: P. Iverson
• Fang, A.C. (2005) Robust practical parsing of English with an automatically generated grammar.
  Supervisor: M Huckvale
  
• 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
• Froud, K. (2001) Linguistic Theory and Language Pathology: Evidence for the Morphology Interface from a Case of Acquired Language Disorder.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• 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
• Gisborne, N. (1996) English Perception Verbs.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson 
• Glowacka, D. (2005) The Role of Alignment in Morphology and Prosody: The Case of Polish
Supervisor: M. Yip
• 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
• Grimberg, M-L. (1997) Against Rigidity: An Investigation of Semantics and Pragmatics of Indexicality.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Groefsema, M. (1992) Processing for Relevance: A Pragmatically based Account of how we Process Natural Language.
  Supervisor: M. Black
• Guimaraes, I. (2002) An electrolaryngographic study of dysphonic Portuguese speakers.
  Supervisor: E. Abberton
• Gutt, E.-A. (1991) Translation and Relevance.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Haacke, W. (1993) The Tonology of Khoekhoe (Nama/Damara).
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Harrison, P. (1999) The Acquisition of Phonology in the First Year of Life.
  Supervisor: J. Harris
• Haydari, A. (2002) Wave interaction in rotary vibro-tactile displays for human communication
  Supervisor: S. Rosen
• 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
• Hiranuma, S. (2001) The syntactic difficulty of Japanese sentences.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• 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
• Holmes, J. (2004) Lexical Properties of English Verbs.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
  
• Holmes, W.J. (1997) Modelling segmental variability for automatic speech recognition.
  Supervisor: M. Huckvale
• Horsey, R. (2006) The Content and Acquisition of Lexical Concepts.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Howard, D. (1985) Larynx Frequency Speech Processing for Cochlear Stimulation.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Howard, I.S. (1991) Speech Fundamental Period Estimation using Pattern Classification.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Huckvale, M. (1984) An Interactive Speech Pattern Audiometer.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• Hunter, G. (2003) Statistical Language Modelling of Dialogue Material in the British National Corpus.
  Supervisor: M. Huckvale
• Ifantidou, E. (1994) Evidentials and Relevance.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Itani, R. (1995) Semantic and Pragmatics of Hedges in English and Japanese.
  Supervisor: R. Carston
• Iten, C. (2000) 'Non-Truth-Conditional' Meaning, Relevance and Concessives.
  Supervisor: R. Carston
• Jahangiri, N. (1980) A Sociolinguistic Study of Tehrani Persian.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Janke, V. (2007) Control without PRO.
  Supervisor: A. Neeleman
  
• Jary, M. (2005) Assertion and Mood: A Cognitive Account.
  Supervisor: R. Carston
  
• 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)
• Kang, H-K. (2000) Aspects of the acquisition of quantification: Experimental studies of English and Korean children.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Karas, M. (1985) The Vocabulary of Turkish Newspapers.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Kilian, H.. (1997) A preliminary study of features of connected speech in contemporary colloquial English, as exemplified by students of the University of London (MPhil)
  Supervisor: J.E. House
• Kim, Y.-K. (1997) Movement and feature-checking in Korean: Relative clauses, topicalization, and case-marking.
  Supervisor: M.R. Manzini
• Klavans, J. (1980) Some Problems in a Theory of Clitics.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith.
• Koga, I. (2003) Psychological Status of Sequential Voicing (Rendaku) in Modern Standard Japanese - its acquisition and development
  Supervisor: J.A. Maidment
• Kreps, C.J.M. (1998) Extraction, movement and dependency theory.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson.
• Kuo, Y-C. (2006) Cochlear implants in a tone language - Mandarin Chinese.
  Supervisor: S. Rosen.
• Law, A. (2004) Sentence-final focus particles in Cantonese.
  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
• Lekakou, M. (2004) In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated; The Semantics of Middles and its Crosslinguistic Realization.
  Supervisor: A. Neeleman
  
• 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
• Malambe, G. (2006) Palatalization and other non-local effects in Southern Bantu Languages.
  Supervisor: M.Yip
  
• 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
• Mathieu, E. (2002) The Syntax of Non-Canonical Quantification: A Comparative Study.
  Supervisor: H van de Koot
• 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
• Messum, P. (2007) The Role of Imitation in Learning to Pronounce.
  Supervisor: M. Ashby
  
• Miller, N. (1993) Towards a Clinical Assessment of Acquired Speech Dyspraxia.
  Supervisor: E. Abberton
• Monaka, K. (2001) Shekgalagari stop consonants: a phonetic and phonological study.
  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
• Nakamura, M. (2001) Articulatory Organisation in Japanese: An EPG Study.
  Supervisor: J.C. Wells.
• Nasukawa, K. (2000) A unified approach to nasality and voicing.
  Supervisor: J. Harris.
• 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.
• Noh, Eun-Ju (1998) The semantics and pragmatics of metarepresentation in English -- a relevance-theoretic approach.
  Supervisor: D.Wilson.
• Nuti, Milena (2003) Ethnoscience: examining common sense.
  Supervisor: D.Wilson.
• Osawa, Fuyo (2000) The rise of functional categories: Syntactic parallels between first and second language acquisition and historical change.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith.
• 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)
• Papafragou, A. (1998) Modality and the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Paterson, S. (1983) Voice and Transitivity.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Pearce, M. (2007) The Interaction of Tone with Voicing and Foot Structure: Evidence from Kera Phonetics and Phonology
  Supervisor: M. Yip
  
• Perovic, A. (2003) Knowledge of Binding in Down Syndrome: Evidence from English and Serbo-Croation.
  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
• Powell, G. (2003) Language, Thought and Reference.
  Supervisor: R. Carston
• 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, E. (1993). Spec-head agreement and functional categories. (MPhil)
  Supervisor: R.M. Manzini
• 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
• Rosta, A. (1997) English Syntax and Word Grammar Theory.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• 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
• Sanoudaki, E. (2007) A CVCV Model of Consonant Cluster Simplification: Evidence from Greek
  Supervisor: J. Harris
  
• 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
• Shiraki, H. (2006) Economy and the Distribution of Reflexives.
  Supervisor: H. van de Koot
  
• Szendroi, K. (2001) Focus and the Syntax-Phonology Interface.
  Supervisor: M. Brody/A.Neeleman
• Taillard, M. (2005) The balancing act of persuasion: A relevance-theoretic perspective.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
  
• Takahashi, T. (2004) Syllable Theory Without Syllables.
  Supervisor: J. Harris
• Tamburelli, M. (2007) The Role of Lexical Acquisition in Simultaneous Bilingualism.
  Supervisor: H.v.d. Koot
  
• 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
• Teixeira, E. (1985) Developmental phonology of Brazilian Portuguese speaking children.
  Supervisor: E. Abberton
• Tingsabadh, K. (1980) A Phonological Study of Suphanburi Thai.
  Supervisor: A.C. Gimson
• Tokuma, S, (1996) The Perceived Quality of Vowels Showing Formant Undershoot.
  Supervisor: M.A. Huckvale
• Topintzi, I. (2006) Moraic Onsets.
  Supervisor: M.Yip
• Truswell, R. (2007) Locality of Wh-movement and the Individuation of Events.
  Supervisor: A. Neeleman
  
• Tsakali, P. (2006)  The Syntax and Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics: a Crosslinguistic Study with Special Reference to Modern Greek.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Tsimpli, I.-M. (1992) Functional Categories and Maturation: The Prefunctional Stage of Language Acquisition.
  Supervisor: N.V. Smith
• Tzanidaki, D. (1996) The Syntax and Pragmatics of Subject and Object Position in Modern Greek.
  Supervisor: R.A. Hudson
• Ufomata, T. (1986) The Phonological Influence of English upon Yoruba.
  Supervisor: M. Ashby
• Umezawa, K. (2001) Japanese Pitch Accent and the English-Speaking Learner: A Study of Production, Perception and Teaching.
  Supervisor: M. Ashby
• Vega Moreno, R. (2005) Creativity and Convention: The Pragmatics of Everyday Figurative Speech.
  Supervisor: R. Carston
  
• Vermeulen, R. (2005) The Syntax of External Possession: Its Basis in Theta-Theory.
  Supervisor: A. Neeleman
  
• Vickers, D. (2004) The Encoding of Fricatives for People with Severe and Profound Hearing Loss.
  
Supervisor: A. Faulkner

• Wharton, Tim (2003) Pragmatics and the Showing/Saying Distinction.
  Supervisor: D. Wilson
• Waring, H. (1976) The Intonation of Modern Greek.
  Supervisor: J.T. Pring
• Wei, J. (1993) A Speech-Pattern Processing Method for Chinese Listeners with Profound Hearing Loss.
  Supervisor: A.J. Fourcin
• White, J. (1999) An Inquiry into Minimalist Phrase Structure.
  Supervisor: H. v.d. Koot
• Wilder, C. (1989) The Syntax of German Infinitives.
  Supervisor: M. Brody/N.V. Smith
• Woolf, C. (2004) Effects of Lexical and Semantic Contexts on Speech Perception and Word Recognition in Aphasia.
  
Supervisor: S Rosen

• 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

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List compiled by N.V.Smith. Last updated 1 October 2007 by Stefanie Anyadi.