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
