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Staff in Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

 

Staff areas of expertise

Below are the primary teaching and supervision staff and their areas of expertise:

Primary supervisors in the Department

Name Research Interests

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

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(Murray Edwards College)
Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
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(Lucy Cavendish College)
Language and Cognition, Comparison of First and Second Language Acquisition,ÌýDiscourse Analysis, Psycholinguistics
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(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

Dr Kirsty McDougall

(Selwyn College)

Phonetics
Dr Marieke MeelenÌý(Trinity Hall) Historical linguistics, syntax and natural language processing
Professor Brechtje PostÌý
(Jesus College)
Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholinguistics
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(Downing College)
Comparative and Historical Syntax
Dr Norma Schifano Syntax of Romance Languages, Language Contact
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(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
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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