Students

Current Students

Jamie Abbott (White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH) studentship 2021)

  • Supervisors: Nino Grillo & Shayne Sloggett

  • Interests: Sentence processing, working memory

Margherita Belia (White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP) 2018)

  • Supervisor: Tamar Keren-Portnoy

  • Interests: Language acquisition, word learning

Yuxi Gong

  • Supervisor: Heather Marsden & George Tsoulas

  • Interests: L2 acquisition, syntax-semantics interface

Akbar Hendra

  • Supervisor: Heather Marsden

  • Interests: L2/L3 acquisition, grammar learning

Fani Karageorgou

  • Supervisor: Nino Grillo & Shayne Sloggett

  • Interests: Sentence processing, working memory, cue-based retrieval

Eunsil Kim

  • Supervisor: Heather Marsden

  • Interests: L2 acquisition, sentence processing, syntax

Florence Oxley

  • Supervisors: Tamar Keren-Portnoy, Eytan Zweig

  • Interests: Language acquisition

Liang Zhao

  • Supervisor: Eleanor Chodroff

  • Interests: Phonetics, tone perception and production

Alumni

Bruno Fernandes (2021)

  • Supervisor: Nino Grillo

  • Thesis: Pseudorelatives, parsing preferences and their natural concealment

Alaa Al-Maani (2021)

  • Supervisor: Heather Marsden & Nino Grillo

  • Thesis: Abstract syntactic representation in a second language: Processing and acquisition of Wh-movement and Definiteness in L2 English

Keisuke Kume (2021)

  • Supervisor: Heather Marsden

  • Thesis: The acquisition of definiteness expressions in non-native Japanese by English- and Korean-speaking learners

Miriam Aguilar (2020)

  • Supervisor: Nino Grillo

  • Thesis: On Pseudorelatives and Human Sentence Parsing

  • Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Lisbon

Chandeera Gunawardena (2020)

  • Supervisor: Heather Marsden

  • Thesis: Cross-linguistic influence in French second and third language syntax: An investigation of L1-English L2-French and L1-Sinhala L2-English L3-French speakers