Department of Linguistics

Research projects

Current externally funded projects:

• Structure and Linearization in Disharmonic Word Orders AHRC
• Sound to Sense Marie Curie
• Syntactic Atlas of Welsh Dialects Newton Trust
• Rethinking Comparative Syntax ERC

Recently held research grants:

• Observations and Remarks on the French language AHRC
• Age-related changes in the use of linguistic cues for speech intelligibility in adverse listening conditions European Research Council ERA-AGE
• Voice similarity and the effect of the telephone: a study of the implications for earwitness evidence ESRC
• The development of negation in the languages of Europe AHRC
• Dynamic Variability in Speech: a Forensic Phonetic Study of British English ESRC
• Null Subjects and the Structure of Parametric Theory AHRB
• 'A Historical Corpus of the Welsh Language' (English language version) AHRB
  'Corpws hanesyddol yr iaith Gymraeg' (Welsh language version) AHRB

Others:

• Default Semantics University of Cambridge and Leverhulme Trust
• The development of a phonetically-rich model of speech understanding. Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship - Prof. Sarah Hawkins
  
• English intonation in the British Isles ESRC
• An Integrated Prosodic Approach to Device-Independent, Natural-Sounding Speech Synthesis EPSRC
• The role of distributed systematic acoustic-phonetic detail in spoken word recognition EPSRC