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| Description | Corpus Phonology | Kwd:1 Text:1 |
| Phonological and phonetic research based on a corpus-linguistic approach |
Phonetics
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| Description | Second Language Acquisition of Phonology | Kwd:1 Text:1 |
| Structure of L2 speech and factors constraining L2 phonological acquisition |
Language Acquisition
Phonetics
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| Description | English Phonology | Kwd:1 Text:1 |
| 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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| 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 | PhD 2008:Acquisition of Standard Jamaican English | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Dissertation title:
Learning the Sounds of Standard Jamaican English: Variationist, Phonological and Pedagogical Perspectives on 7-year-old Children's Classroom Speech |
Applied Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Phonetics
Phonology
Sociolinguistics
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| Description | English question tags | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| My work (consisting of one book and several articles in French) deals with utterances that contain finite question tags in English. It is based on a corpus of both written and oral English. |
Phonology
Semantics
Syntax
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | Tone in some New Englishes | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Investigation of the evolution of (lexical) tone in some New Englishes, as a consequence of contact with tone languages in the ecology |
Genetic Classification
Phonetics
phonology
typology
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