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Supervisions - Prof. Dr. D. Britain

Successfully completed Doctoral Dissertations

 

1996 Wai Chu (Rachel) LUNG: A Study of Language Attitudes towards Cantonese and Putonghua of the Hong Kong Chinese People in the run-up to 1997: a three tier approach. Wai Chu now works at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
1998 Adenike ADEBAJO: Variation and Change in the address system of Yoruba-English bilinguals. Nike now works as the director of an equality and diversity training consultancy in the North of England.
1998 Abdelmohsen AL-DASHTI: Multilingualism in Kuwait: a sociolinguistic analysis. Abdelmohsen now works in the English Department of the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training in Kuwait.
1998 Dimitris PAPAZACHARIOU: Linguistic Variation in Intonation: language and the construction of identity among Northern Greek adolescents. Dimitris now works as a lecturer at the University of Patras.
2000 Andrea SUDBURY: Koineisation in Falkland Island English: a southern hemisphere variety? (Funded by ESRC – Economic and Social Research Council – the UK’s research funding body for the social sciences).
2000 Kazuko MATSUMOTO: Language death and language survival in the Western Pacific: Japanese in the Republic of Palau. Kazuko now works at Tokyo University.
2004 Miu Tai HO: Variation and change in Hong Kong and Guangzhou Cantonese. Miu now teaches in London.
2004 Praparat PROMPAPAKORN: Dialect contact in a Thai New Town. Praparat works for Mahasarakham University in Thailand.
2005 Yun-Hsuan KUO: New dialect formation: the case of Taiwanese Mandarin. Susan works for the Mackay Medical College in Taiwan.
2006 Emma WATTS: Mobility-induced dialect contact: A sociolinguistic investigation of speech variation in Wilmslow, Cheshire (ESRC-funded).
2006 Lynn LANDWEER: Predictors of ethnolinguistic vitality in Papua New Guinea. Lynn works for the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics in Dallas, US.
2007 Susan BAKER: "Right, do interactional functions constrain phonological variation? Well, maybe not always": An investigation of the interactional constraints of the discourse particles right and well on language variation (ESRC-funded).
2007 Susan FOX: The Demise of Cockneys?: Language change in London’s ‘traditional’ East End (ESRC-funded). Sue now works for Queen Mary, University of London.
2008 Anne MEUTER: The emergence of structured variation in the speech of children and adolescents in Bonn, Germany (ESRC-funded).
2009 Dave SAYERS: Reversing Babel: Declining linguistic diversity and the flawed attempts to protect it (ESRC-funded). Dave now works as a Social Research Manager at Caer Las Cymru in Swansea, Wales.
2009 Siria GUZZO: Bedford Italians at work: A sociolinguistic analysis of the Italians in Britain. Linguistics Section, Department of Statistical Sciences, Università degli Studi Federico II, Naples, Italy. I was Siria’s external supervisor. Siria now works for the Università degli Studi l’Orientale in Naples.
2009 Gareth PRICE: A Political Sociology of Language in Taiwan: Local, National and Global Contexts (with Dr Yasemin Soysal in Department of Sociology) (ESRC-funded). Gareth now works at Duke University in the US.
2010 Catharine CARFOOT: A sociophonological analysis of the short front vowel shift in New Zealand English. (with Dr Wyn Johnson) (ESRC-funded).
2010 Caroline PIERCY: One /a/ or two?: the phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics of change in the TRAP and BATH vowels in the southwest of England. (ESRC funded).
2011 Keiko HIRANO: Dialect contact and social network effects in the anglophone community of Japan.
2012 Jennifer AMOS: A sociophonological analysis of Mersea Island English: an investigation of the diphthongs /ai/, /au/ and /oi/.

 

Current PhD students
Phillip TIPTON: The psycholinguistics of sociophonological variation and change in St Helens English (with Dr Wyn Johnson) (ESRC-funded).
 
Amanda RIGBY: Dialect contact and lifestyle migration in Southern Spain
 
Elisa MARENZI: Becoming Australian: Italian and Lebanese Englishes in Melbourne.
 
Berta BADIA BARRERA: Problematising RP: Variation and change in Upper Class English (with Prof Peter Patrick).

 

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