ISLE Research Network

Members of ISLE can choose to create a brief profile of their current research activities for publication on our website. Each profile may contain up to 5 ‘themes’, and each theme may include any number of keywords.

We aim for this page to be a showcase of research in English Linguistics. It will enable members to get in touch with others working on related research topics.

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Description	Functional Discourse Grammar	Kwd:1 Text:0
	I am involved in the development of FDG (see Hengeveld & Mackenzie 2008, Functional Discourse Grammar, OUP) and in its application to contemporary English and the grammar of dialogue.
	dialogue  English grammar  Linguistic Theories
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Description	Compound stress in English	Kwd:1 Text:0
	We investigate the variability in compound stress assignment (e.g. wátchmaker vs. Tory léader), using large amounts of experimental and corpus data, and statistical and computational modeling.
	Linguistic Theories  Morphology  Phonology  Psycholinguistics
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Description	Language Variation	Kwd:1 Text:0
	CUP book *The Linguistics of Speech* describes how language in use qualifies as a "complex system" as used in many other sciences
	language variation  Linguistic Theories
Description	English Phonology	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Research topics: phonetic bases, sonority conversion, motivation of shift, phonological laws, syllabification, syllabic consonants, schwa and diphthongs: segmental and historical, relatively empirical
	English  facts  historical phonology  linguistic theories  phonology  segmental phonology  variation and change
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