Below are the primary teaching and supervision staff and their areas of expertise:
Primary supervisors in the Department
Name | Research Interests |
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Dr Dora AlexopoulouÌý(Murray Edwards College) |
Language Typology and Cognition, Second Language Acquisition, Learner Corpora |
Dr Amanda Cole |
Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, Language variation and change, Language attitudes |
Ìý (Murray Edwards College) |
Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics |
Ìý (Lucy Cavendish College) |
Language and Cognition, Comparison of First and Second Language Acquisition,ÌýDiscourse Analysis, Psycholinguistics |
Ìý (NewnhamÌýCollege) |
Semantics and Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language |
Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, Bilingualism, Developmental Disorders | |
Dr Suhail Matar |
Neurolinguistics, neuroscience of language, cognitive neuroscience, processing morphosyntactic and discourse structures, predictive processing |
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing | |
(Selwyn College) |
Phonetics |
Dr Marieke MeelenÌý(Trinity Hall) | Historical linguistics, syntax and natural language processing |
Professor Brechtje PostÌý (Jesus College) |
Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics |
Ìý (Downing College) |
Comparative and Historical Syntax |
Dr Norma Schifano | Syntax of Romance Languages, Language Contact |
Ìý (FitzwilliamÌýCollege) |
First and Second Language Acquisition, Language Impairment, Bilingualism |
Professor Bert VauxÌý (King's College) |
Phonology, Morphology, Dialectology, Historical Linguistics |
Psycholinguistics,ÌýCognitive Psychology,ÌýSecond Language Learning |
Others in the Faculty Related to Linguistics
Within the FacultyÌýthere are a number of people whose work and teaching are closely connected with linguistics.
Name | Section | Subject area | Ìý |
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French | Language Death, Language Contact, Dialectology, Language Change ([Comparative] Romance and Other Languages) | ||
Slavonic Studies |
Syntax of Slavic Languages | ||
Spanish and Portuguese | Syntax of Romance Language | ||
German | Historical Linguistics of German, Older Germanic Languages, Tense and Aspect, Grammaticalisation | ||
Prof Christopher Young | German | Middle High German |
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