UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences

Masters Dissertations awarded since 1974

The following is a list of Masters theses completed within Phonetics and Linguistics. It includes dissertations from the MA Linguistics programme inaugurated in 1974, the MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences programme from 1995, and the MA programmes in Phonology, Syntax and Pragmatics from 2003.

Achrymienia, Marek, C as a syllable type. (MA Linguistics, 2007) [Web link].
Ackford, Shani, A comparison of the effectiveness of aphasia-friendly information across two different information-giving conditions.. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2008)
Adjibade, Machied, Jackendoff, Fodor and the decompositional theory of Lexical meaning.. (MA Linguistics, 2006)
Aiba, Y., An auditory analysis of the main segmental errors in Japanese learners pronunciation of English. (MA Phonetics, 1990)
Akiyama, Keiko, Suru-compounding in Japanese. (MA Linguistics, 1987)
Akturk, Memet, Arabic loanwords in Turkish. (MA Linguistics, 2003)
Al-Mihmadi, Mariam, Vowel intrusion: evidence from a Bedouin Hijazi Arabic dialect.. (MA Linguistics, 2006)
Albury, Florence, The status of the -ed suffix in Black Bahamian English.. (MA Linguistics, 1981)
Ali, Sarah, A Brief Study of Urdu Word Order. (MA Linguistics, 1997)
Allott, Nick, Against causal externalism: meaning and reference in strange worlds. (MA Linguistics, 2001) [Abstract].
Almazn Arreola, Mariela, Case studies in Spanish phonology. (MA Linguistics, 1995)
Almaz�n Arreola, , Case studies in Spanish phonology. (MA Linguistics, 1995)
Alves, Helen S., Aspects of negation in Portuguese.. (MA Linguistics, 1981)
Anyadi, Stefanie, Negation in German and its status in the prefunctional stage of acquisition.. (MA Linguistics, 1991)
Archibald, A, Some patterns of intonation in Hong Kong English. (MA Linguistics, 2000)
Armit, Philip, Word Classes and the English Noun Phrase. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Arregu�, Euridice, Bittner and Hale's Theory of Case and Agreement: A Critical Review. (MA Linguistics, 1997)
Asa, Koichiro, Brackets and Relevance. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Ash, Karen, The Viability of the English Group Genitive. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Ashraf, Kaleem, From �Noble Ideals�: Chomsky�s Linguistics and Politics. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Aspa Corbeto, Susanna, The development of verbal morphosyntax and temporal reference in early child grammars. (MA Linguistics, 1999)
Barron, Louise, Vowel-zero alternation and lexical accent in Russian. (MA Linguistics, 1999)
Bate , Chlo�, Beat Detection and Specific Language Impairment: How is Sensitivity to Amplitude Envelope Onsets related to Speech, Language and Literacy?. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2003) [Web link].
Bateman, Sarah, The Resolution of Lexical Ambiguity arising from Place Assimilation: Evidence from a Gated Speech Task. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2002) [Web link].
Bayliss, Emma, A Critical Look at Semantic Pragmatic Disorder. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Bellem, Alexandra, Emphatics and gutturals: the status of [A] in Arabic. (MA Linguistics, 1999)
Ben Mamoun, El, Causatives in Moroccan Arabic.. (MA Linguistics, 1987)
Blass, Regina, The Sisaala negative in the light of universal predictions.. (MA Linguistics, 1980)
Breder, G, The possibility of a pharyngeal fricative in Cariocan dialect. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Breheny, Richard, Procedural semantics for pronouns, definite and demonstrative determiners.. (MA Linguistics, 1993)
Brenchley, Mark, Lord Monboddo�s Of the Origin and Progress of Language. (MA Linguistics, 2005) [Web link].
Brennan, Peter, An inquiry into the child's awareness of language: some metalinguistic judgments of a seven-year-old.. (MA Linguistics, 1978)
Brown, Katherine, Pronunciation and word stress. (MA Linguistics, 2001)
Budewig, Karen, Word order in German and Dutch: OV or VO.. (MA Linguistics, 1995)
Bull, Brian, The interaction of phonological rules and constraints in San Jeronimo Mazatec.. (MA Linguistics, 1982)
Bury, Dirk, Is what you get what you see? Matching effects and the derivation of free relatives.. (MA Linguistics, 1998)
Byfield, Karen, Language and Theory of Mind.. (MA Linguistics, 1996)
Caballero, IU, On the intonation in the Basque of Hondarribia. (MA Phonetics, 1996)
Cabredo Hofherr, Patrizia, The syllabic structure of vowel sequences in Spanish.. (MA Linguistics, 1995)
Cabrera-Abreu, M, The forms of intonation: An overview of Spanish. (MA Phonetics, 1991)
Capdevila i Batet, Montserrat, The acquisition of direct questions in English.. (MA Linguistics, 1992)
Capurro, M, An investigation into the validity of some generalisations on English intonation. (MA Phonetics, 1994)
Carbonell, J, Constrastive and error analysis of English and Japanese consonants. (MA Phonetics, 1992)
Carlson, Eric, The demodulation of speech signals.. (MA Phonology, 2005) [Web link].
Carson, Siobhan, . (MA Phonetics, 2006)
Carston, Robyn, Approaches to verbal irony.. (MA Linguistics, 1980)
Chadwick, Richard, Conversation and regimentation: The role of conversational postulates in the regulation of conversation.. (MA Linguistics, 1994)
Chartier, Marcy, Spanish Peripheral Focus. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Chatziathanasiou, Elpida, Semantic and syntactic facts concerning extraction from NPs. (MA Linguistics, 2003)
Chen, Yen-Pei, Can non-native speakers accommodate?. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Cheung, Kwok, Derivation of the three Cantonese changed tones. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Choo, W, Some contextual factors affecting the degree of aspiration in RP. (MA Phonetics, 1991)
Chou, Yun-Chin, The Importance of Pitch Information in Speech Recognition with reference to Mandarin Chinese. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2002) [Web link].
Chua, Elizabeth , A Computer-Based Auditory Training of English Contrasts for Cantonese Speakers. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2000) [Web link].
Chung, Joohee, Relativisation and Barriers in Korean. (MA Linguistics, 1996)
Chung, H., Duration modelling for speech synthesis of Korean. (MA Phonetics, 2000)
Cocco, Graziella, Raddoppiamento sintattico' in Italian and Sardinian.. (MA Linguistics, 1989)
Collins, Kelly, Diffusion or confusion: How Hiberno-English and West African languages affected the development of African American Vernacular English. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Constantinidou, Haidou, Cypriot Greek: An account in terms of Government Phonology. (MA Linguistics, 1999)
Coudounaris, Stella, On the phonological and phonetic properties of Cypriot Greek Geminates.. (MA Linguistics, 2006)
Couroucli, T., A morpho-syntactic study of an English/Greek bilingual four-year-old child.. (MA Linguistics, 1984)
Crawford, James, Exceptional case marking: intricacies and inadequacies.. (MA Syntax, 2007)
Cummings, Lesley, The delimitation of semantics and pragmatics.. (MA Linguistics, 1984)
Curtis, Elisa, Investigating the contribution of drawing to total communication in severe aphasia. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2008)
D'Andrea, Chiara, A comparison of coherence-based and relevance-based approaches to dialogue.. (MA Linguistics, 1995)
D'Souza, Amanda, What theory can tell us about acquired aphasia - why people with acquired aphasia can be such skilled and creative communicators.. (MA Linguistics, 2006)
Dardo, Rosa, Phenomena of neutralisation in Neapolitan Italian.. (MA Linguistics, 1998)
De La Grandville, Isabelle, George and the Unarticulated Constituent.. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Deimezi, I, A phonetic account of the voiced plosive variation in modern Greek. (MA Phonetics, 1998)
Demetriou, S, A brief outline of the phonetics and phonology of Cypriot Greek. (MA Linguistics, 2000)
Destounis, Anthia, Greek baby talk.. (MA Linguistics, 1987)
Dickson, Angela, Who let the dogs out? An Optimality theoretic account of particle verbs in English and Scandinavian. (MA Linguistics, 2003)
Direkze, Amelie, A Pilot Study to Test a Group of Sri Lankans for Native Intuitions in the English Language.. (MA Linguistics, 1996)
Donchi, Julia, Minimalist approaches to control and the configurational matrix. (MA Linguistics, 2001)
Drouga, Nicoleta, Some definiteness phenomena, with particular reference to Modern Greek. (MA Linguistics, 1999)
Dumican , Rebecca, The Effect of Timbre on Pitch Perception in Pianists, Violinists and Non-Musicians. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2002) [Web link].
Ejele, Philomena, Towards a phonology of Esan (Ishan). (MA Linguistics, 1982)
El Ayadi, Redouan, Moroccan Arabic as a null-subject language. (MA Linguistics, 1987)
Espinal, Maria, The Catalan auxiliary verb system. (MA Linguistics, 1981)
Evangelopoulou, Aliki, High vowel deletion and mid vowel raising in Karditsa Greek: An OT analysis. (MA Phonology, 2005) [Web link].
Ezekiel, Darrell, Truthfulness in talk exchanges - A relevance-theoretic approach. (MA Linguistics, 2000)
Falkum, Ingrid, Relevance Theory and contrastive pragmatics: A case study of narrowing and broadening in English and Norwegian original texts and translations. (MA Pragmatics, 2005)
Fenton, James, Atonement - A cross-language study of Pitch Perception. (MA Linguistics, 2007)
Finn, Ruth, The Plasticity of the Brain regarding Auditory Perception � A Project Using Spectrally-Rotated Speech. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2001) [Web link].
Fletcher, Christopher, A semantic analysis of a group of related words using Word Grammar. (MA Linguistics, 1989)
Fould, Rose, There is no need for ambisyllabicity in English.. (MA Linguistics, 2007) [Web link].
Frank, Karen, Sexism and gender: An investigation into the gender system of German. (MA Linguistics, 1994)
Froud, Karen, Agrammatic comprehension and the Minimalist Program. (MA Linguistics, 1997)
Fujino, Y, Prosodic effects on the auditory perception of segments. (MA Linguistics, 2001)
Fujishima, Urara, Acquisition of negation: How to develop and what to express in English and Japanese. (MA Linguistics, 1999)
Fujiwara, Y, Aspects of English fricatives by Japanese learners. (MA Linguistics, 2000)
Fukuda, Keido, On movement of WH-phrases in Japanese. (MA Linguistics, 1996)
Furuya, A., A bilingual mental lexicon: how it varies with different levels of proficiency regarding production. (MA Linguistics, 2007)
Gallon, Nichola, Prosodic complexity in SLI. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Garcia, Samantha, An Analysis of the Effects of Nine Months of Vocal Training on the Voice. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2006) [Web link].
Gates, Sophie, The Influence of the 'Mobile Phone Effect' on Formant Frequencies: Artefact or Reality?. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2006) [Web link].
Gavill, Antigoni, The role of theory of mind in irony comprehension. (MA Linguistics, 2005)
Gerty, Elizabeth, Autism, relevance and theory of mind. (MA Linguistics, 2005)
Giakoumarou, Maria, A study on the acquisition of Phonology. (MA Linguistics, 2000)
Gilbey, Richard, Deep structure as logical form. (MA Linguistics, 1976)
Gill, Aristy, Bilingual language development and flexible syntax. (MA Linguistics, 2000)
Gilson, Coralie, Explaining code-switching in verbal communication. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Goddard, Timothy, Word order in German: is verb second movement to I or to C?. (MA Linguistics, 1995)
Golding, Alexandra, Poetic effects. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Golub Wills, Adriana, The verb movement parameter in L2: Resetting or general learning strategies?. (MA Linguistics)
Gomez, Isabel Vallejo, Phonological Word and Stuttering: A Contrastive Study between English and Spanish. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 1999) [Web link].
Goule, Eleni, The Greek discourse connective parolafta/'nevertheless': A relevance-theoretic approach. (MA Linguistics, 1998)
Groefsema, M., On the interaction of pragmatic principles and parsing principles: a relevance driven model. (MA Linguistics, 1988)
Gutt, Ernst-August, A multi-tiered approach to Silt'i verb morphology. (MA Linguistics, 1983)
Gyde, Helen, The language of advertising in Women's magazines. (MA Linguistics, 1993)
HSU, Chiung-Wen, Loanword adaptations: from tone to stress.. (MA Linguistics, 2007)
Haeberli, Eric, Some aspects of Old English word order.. (MA Linguistics, 1992)
Haidou, Konstantina, Free word order phenomena: The case of Greek.. (MA Linguistics, 1998)
Halai, Divya, Panini's Astadhyayi: the first generative grammar.. (MA Linguistics, 2006)
Halbrook, Dolan, The Overgeneration Game. (MA Linguistics, 1997)
Hall, Alison, Discourse connectives and cognitive effects: the case of but. (MA Linguistics, 2003) [Abstract].
Halstead, Ildiko, Irony and persuasion.. (MA Linguistics, 1992)
Halton, Kelly, Non-modular modularity: Exploring the human proclivity for social intelligence. (MA Linguistics, 2007) [Web link].
Hamayed, Jasmine, Bilingualism and Modularity. (MA Linguistics, 1997)
Hamdoun, Amal, Current trends in first and second language acquisition.. (MA Linguistics, 1990)
Hancil, Sylvie, Almost, nearly, barely, hardly, scarcely: A study of a few focusing adverbials.. (MA Linguistics, 1994)
Harada, T, Contrastive and error analysis of English and Japanese consonants. (MA Phonetics, 1992)
Harris, Gaskell, Algorithms and Recipes: A comparison of some aspects of computer-language and natural-language means of expressing procedural instructions.. (MA Linguistics, 1975)
Harrison, Nene, Pretending and non-literal communication: Lies, damned lies and Linguistics . (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Herbert, Tommy, Preferential scalar implicatures: An online experiment to test the influence of context on parsing. (MA Linguistics, 2005)
Hill, M., s Orwell's dystoian Newspeak a feasible project?. (MA Linguistics, 2007)
Hipp, V, Vowel modification with rising pitch in singing. (MA Phonetics, 1997)
Hiranuma, S, Analysis of Japanese syllable structure. (MA Phonetics, 1994)
Hirson, A, Phonetic aspects of snoring. (MA Phonetics, 1991)
Hodgson, James, Linguistic knowledge and language use.. (MA Linguistics, 1979)
Holmberg, Jan, Imperatives, indirectives, and other directives: a study of semantic conditions on directive speech acts.. (MA Linguistics, 1978)
Holmes, Marianne, The role of pragmatic interpretation in the word order of English particle verbs. (MA Linguistics, 2001)
Hoshino, N, A comparative study of vowel quality in Caribbean and British English. (MA Linguistics, 2000)
Hsiung, Donald, Ambiguity and natural language processing.. (MA Linguistics, 1988)
Ibbotson, Paul, Pragmatic Principles: Information, Ambiguity and Context. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Ibraheem, Rabab, Learners' strategies in Second language acquisition.. (MA Linguistics, 1989)
Ichida, Shuei, The comprehension/production dilemma and Optimality Theory. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Ikeda, A, Current change of word-accent in Japanese "flattening" phenomenon.. (MA Phonetics, 1998)
Ioannidou, Fotini, Relevance Theory and the integrated model of persuasive communication: The case of advertising and public relations. (MA Linguistics, 2001)
Ito, Kanako, Second language learning: Evidence from the acquisition of Wh-Movement by Japanese learners of English.. (MA Linguistics, 1992)
Ito, T, Effects of accent on Mora duration in Japanese. (MA Phonetics, 1998)
Jalal, Noureddine, On defining analyticity.. (MA Linguistics, 1979)
James, Karen, What's in a name? A Prosodic morphological analysis of English hypocoristics. (MA Linguistics, 2003)
Janke, Victoria , Move! Not the Minimalist answer for construal. (MA Linguistics, 2001)
Jimbo, H, The accentual patterns of English loanwords in Japanese. (MA Phonetics, 1996)
Judzis, Anita, Case assignment in modern Latvian.. (MA Linguistics, 1989)
Kaiafas, Marios, The relation between language and thought. (MA Linguistics, 2006)
Kalianos, Evangelia, Double dissociations: Evidence for modularity of mind. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Kalliopi, K, A phonological and phonetic analysis of English loan words in Modern Greek. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Kanayama, Yuko, The structure of Irony. (MA Linguistics, 1995)
Karagianni, Eleni, The whereabouts of bound variable anaphora. (MA Linguistics, 2001)
Karamoutsou, Evangelia, Onset clusters in Attic Greek. (MA Linguistics, 1992)
Karatsis, A, An investigation of the phonetic and phonological errors of an L2 pronunciation. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Karim, T., Language of advertising: Using relevance theory as a theoretical framework for the analysis with particular reference to covert strategies. (MA Linguistics, 2007)
Kashyap, A, The status of the alveolar tap as an allophone of /t/ n near RP.. (MA Phonetics, 1998)
Katsurahara, E., A study of strong and weak forms. (MA Phonetics, 1994)
Kawabe, Chiyoko, Language Change in Japanese. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Kawasaki, Shuichi, Ain't no reason to avoid marrying a sheep. (MA Linguistics, 1999)
Kechagias, Akis, Generating words: Compounding in Modern Greek. (MA Linguistics, 2005)
Kefalidou, Sofia, The semantics of the adverbial still: some synchronical and diachronical aspects. (MA Linguistics, 2001)
Kelaiditou, Maria, The language of advertising: a relevance-theoretic approach. (MA Linguistics, 1990)
Kenning, C., Optimality theory and sound change: A discussion of nasalization in the history of French. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Kenyon, Sylvia, A Relevance-theoretic approach to the theory of mind and central coherence accounts of autism.. (MA Linguistics, 1998)
Kibble, Rodger, A study of quantification in ordinary English. (MA Linguistics, 1978)
Kim, Dae-Young, Metaphor as argumentative function: a pragmatic perspective.. (MA Pragmatics, 2007) [Web link].
Kim, K, A comparative study on Korean intonation. (MA Phonetics, 1997)
Kim, J, A study of [l] & [r]: Acoustic characteristics and distribution in Korean. (MA Linguistics, 2000)
Kim, Y S, An experimental study of Korean Nasals: evidence for densalization in word-initial position. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Kitagawa, Aya, Phonetic factors affecting the Fx Peak and Valley alignment in standard Japanese. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Kitazawa, Manami, A Pragmatic analysis of Japanese copular tautologies. (MA Linguistics, 1997)
Kjoll, Georg, The "content" of 'content' - applying the lexical pragmatics of relevance theory. (MA Pragmatics, 2007) [Web link].
Klavans-Rekosh, Judith, Clitic promotion in Spanish. (MA Linguistics, 1976)
Koga, I, Mora analysis of "Rendaku". (MA Linguistics, 1999)
Koizumi, Yuko, Japanese sentence-final expression noda.. (MA Linguistics, 1993)
Koizumi, Yukiko, Semantics/Pragmatics of English Sentence Adverbials. (MA Linguistics, 1997)
Kokolakis, Angelos, The relevance of pronouns. (MA Linguistics, 1994)
Koniari, S, The phonetics of English loanwords in modern Greek. (MA Phonetics, 1994)
Konoike, , Concepts: from structure to acquisition. (MA Linguistics, 1999)
Koppel, Margaret, Topic, comment, focus and presupposition. (MA Linguistics, 1978)
Korotkowa, Olga, Russian-German Bilingualism and Depictive secondary predicate construction. (MA Linguistics, 2005) [Web link].
Koulouri , Theodora, Experiments in Far-Field Automatic Speech Recognition. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2006) [Web link].
Koumoulli, Melina, A study of some aspects of question intonation in Cypriot Greek. (MA Linguistics, 1989)
Krauss, Helga, The role of prototypes in thought and utterance interpretation. (MA Linguistics, 1991)
Kreps, Christian, A relational approach to English Syntax. (MA Linguistics, 1993)
Kuribara, Chieko, Agrammatism: A critical analysis of its structural accounts. (MA Linguistics, 1994)
Lai, Hannah, Linguistics and genetic issues in the analysis of Specific Language Impairment. (MA Linguistics, 1998)
Lake, Jill, Early development of the passive in English. (MA Linguistics, 1976)
Lalami, Laila, Generalised conversational implicature from the standpoint of relevance theory. (MA Linguistics, 1991)
Landin, David, An outline of the syntactic structure of Karitiana sentences. (MA Linguistics, 1980)
Lau, Cecilia, Variations in Modern Hong Kong Chinese. (MA Linguistics, 2005)
Lau, Sze, The perception and production of /th/ by Hong Kong Cantonese speaking ESL learners. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Lawson, Mark, Modularity versus Interactionism in sentence processing. (MA Linguistics, 1993)
Lawson, Pamela, Metaphor and translation. (MA Linguistics, 1990)
Le Cruz, E, A contrastive study of English intonation with special interest in Venezuelan students of English as a foreign language. (MA Phonetics, 1997)
Lee, Christopher, Abstractness in Phonology. (MA Linguistics, 1976)
Lee, Jung Hyun, Negation in Chinese and English. (MA Linguistics, 1997) [Web link].
Lege, Peter, Assessing the Effects of Speech-reading on Speech Perception with Sensorineural Hearing Loss � Simulations in Natural Conditions. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 1997) [Web link].
Lekakou, Maria, Focus in Modern Greek. (MA Linguistics, 2000)
Leonard, A., To have got deletion: an analysis of the anomalous verbs of possession in British English. (MA Linguistics, 2007)
Leung, Ho-Young, A Government based analysis of the Cantonese Rhyme. (MA Linguistics, 1997)
Lewin, Donna, British Sign Language, the Deaf community and Mouthings. (MA Linguistics, 2006) [Web link].
Lewis, Andrew, 'But' in Hebrew: A procedural account of the discourse connectives aval and ela. (MA Linguistics, 1998)
Lin, Pei-shu , Interpretational ambiguity in Chinese resultative constructions. (MA Linguistics, 2007) [Web link].
Lipton, R, Voice quality and the laryngograph. (MA Linguistics, 2000)
Liu, Tanru, Word formation in Modern Mandarin Chinese. (MA Linguistics, 1984)
Llinas-Grau, M., The syntax of some verbal sequences in Catalan. (MA Linguistics, 1988)
Lobina, David J., The language of thought and Universal Grammar. (MA Linguistics, 2005)
Lobo, Michael, Word order in Spanish and the position of the subject. (MA Linguistics, 1996)
Loizeaux, Katherine, Cartesian linguistics and the grammatical theory at Port-Royal. (MA Linguistics, 1981)
Loten, James, Concepts: Where Fodor went wrong. (MA Linguistics, 2003)
Luk, Nga, A study of reduplication in Cantonese A-not-A constructions. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Madeira, Ana Maria, The syntax of verbal clitics in European Portuguese. (MA Linguistics, 1990)
Maitland-Hudson, Genevieve, What is Va-Va-Voom? Metarepresentational use in Verlan. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Man, Enoch, Null arguments. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Manaou, P, A phonetic overview of the modern Greek Thessalian dialect. (MA Linguistics, 1999)
Manganari , Evdoxia, Speech and Non-speech Auditory Processing in Children with Dyslexia. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 1998) [Web link].
Mantykoski, Janne, Relevance theory and modularity. (MA Linguistics, 1999)
Mantzaris, Philippos, Analysis of the Ancient Greek vowel and diphthong system and related processes within the framework of Dependency and non-linear phonology. (MA Linguistics, 1993)
Marshall, Chloe, Access to Universal Grammar in second language acquisition. (MA Linguistics, 2001)
Maschio, Victoria , The Evolutionary Nature of Emotion: Vocal Cues to Happiness. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2001) [Web link].
Mathieu, Eric, Optionality and Asymmetry in French WH-Movement. (MA Linguistics, 1997)
Matsudo, Hideki, A cognitive account of extended metaphor interpretation process: Analogical thinking and discourse-comprehension theory.. (MA Linguistics, 1998)
Matsui, T, Devoicing of the vowel/u/in Tokyo and Osaka speech. (MA Phonetics, 1997)
Matsumoto, Ryoko, Single-Word Processing by Japanese-English Bilinguals: A 3T fMRI Study. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2002) [Web link].
Maury, Stephanie, Theory of mind and modularity. (MA Linguistics, 1996)
Mavrea, V, The phonetics and phonology of Greek foreigner talk. (MA Linguistics, 2001)
McKillen, Alanah, Coordination and weak pronouns in English. (MA Linguistics, 2007) [Web link].
McRae , Alexandra, Ostensive-inferential communication in normal and 'theory of mind'-impaired individuals: A study of Relevance theory. (MA Linguistics, 2003)
Meacham, Sundari, Uses of like in American English. (MA Linguistics, 1999)
Melbourne, Robert, Deixis and the situation of utterance in the lyrical poetry of W.B. Keats. (MA Linguistics, 1979)
Mensah, Kingsley, Aspects of anaphora in Akan (Fante). (MA Linguistics, 1984)
Miike, Hiroka, Language modularity. (MA Linguistics, 2003)
Mimura, Mariko, A relevance-theoretic perspective on politeness. (MA Linguistics, 2000)
Ming, Y, A comparision of monthongs in Tone 1 and Tone 3 in modern standard Chinese. (MA Linguistics, 1999)
Mistry, Ajay, Vowel Production in First & Second Generation Immigrants: A Sociophonetic Study of the Gujarati Community in Wembley. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2006) [Web link].
Mok, Hoi, Cantonese tense and aspect system: A comparison with English and an error analysis. (MA Linguistics, 2005)
Molto, M, Aspects of the rhythm of child-directed speech in river plate Spanish. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Morandini, Diego, The phonology of loanwords in Italian. (MA Linguistics, 2007) [Web link].
Morita, Yoshiko, On a polysemous morpheme in Japanese. (MA Linguistics, 2005)
Motoi, N, A comparision of the intonation of reading and spoken RP English styles. (MA Phonetics, 1995)
Mouma, Evangelia, DP in modern Greek. (MA Linguistics, 1992)
Moumoulidis, Evangelos, Learner attitudes: their role in SLA. (MA Linguistics, 1993)
Mourikis, Ilias, On the nature and distribution of Modern Greek reflexives. (MA Linguistics, 2005)
Muhammad, Abdul, Licensing of positive and negative polarity items in Kurdish (Sorani): A binding approach. (MA Linguistics, 2006) [Web link].
Muller, Robin, Hooligans, mavericks and hermaphrodites: On the Metonymic motivation for certain types of eponym formation. (MA Linguistics, 2005)
Murray, Valerie, The diachronic development of the gerund in English. (MA Linguistics, 1974)
Muto, Akihiro, A prosodic study of a Japanese new word: A derivation with the suffix -aa. (MA Linguistics, 2002)
Nakamori, Takayuki, Relative clauses: A Bitter Lemon for Japanese Learners of English. (MA Linguistics, 1997)
Namin, P. N., The study of Ezafe in Farsi: similarity between Ezafe in Farsi and construct states in Hebrew.. (MA Linguistics, 2007)
Nasukawa, Kunika, Gemination in Sendai Japanese.. (MA Linguistics, 1991)
Neale, Wendy, The Competence-Performance Distinction and Language Production. (MA Linguistics, 1996)
Newton, Caroline, Subjective and Objective Assessment of the Speech of Post-lingually Deafened Adults. What Makes People "Sound Deaf". (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 1995) [Web link].
Nixon, Tanith, Do Sign Languages Provide Evidence for the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Noguchi, Takaki, Definite and Indefinite descriptions. (MA Linguistics, 1997)
Noh, Eun-Ju, A pragmatic approach to metalinguistic negation.. (MA Linguistics, 1994)
Norton, Matthew, The development of verb argument structure: Unaccusativity. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Nybo, Asbj�rn , Processing effort and response-order effects in attitude survey items with two or three response Alternatives. (MA Linguistics, 2006) [Web link].
Nyvad, Anne Mette, Revisiting agreement paradigms: predictive adjectives in Danish.. (MA Syntax, 2007) [Web link].
Olausson, Lena, Element theory and the Swedish vowel system. (MA Linguistics, 2001)
Olsberg, Michael, The Link between Tone and Syllable in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from Perception. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2006) [Web link].
Ori, Zivan, Definiteness in the Construct State: A Syntax-toPhonology Mapping Problem. (MA Linguistics, 2004)
Osawa, Fuyo, Category maturation from a historical perspective.. (MA Linguistics, 1994)
Osterhout-Spalding, Lauren, Words in Flux: a relevance-theoretic approach to semantic change.. (MA Linguistics, 2007) [Web link].
Ovens, Maria, A Spreading Activation Model of Word Selection. (MSc Speech and Hearing Sciences, 1999) [Web link].
Padrosa Trias, Susanna, Aspect in Child Catalan . (MA Syntax, 2003)
Paloposki, Outi, The case of the Finnish object. (MA Linguistics, 1991)
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