Theses and student papers
PhD and Masters theses
A complete catalogue of PhD theses, completed by students from our Department, is available in our
library catalogue.
Each year more than 80 students complete their Masters with our Department. We publish a list of previous Masters dissertation titles and copies of dissertations are
available in the Spicer Library.
Essex Graduate Student Papers in Language and Linguistics
Since 1997 we have published an annual collection of papers written by graduate students in our Department. As a graduate student this gives you
invaluable experience of preparing a paper for publishing. Recent issues are available to download and back issues are available
from the Spicer Library.
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This issue: The development of the Arabic reflective-impulsive cognitive style scale | The Form of English Wh-questions produced by Japanese
Adolescent Learners: A Feature Reassembly Account | The study of variable (r) in Bangkok Thai consonant clusters by Teochew-Thais and native Thais in Hao Lam Phong
Chinese community of Bangkok, Thailand | Age and language variation: a study of VOT for plosives in Essex English | An investigation of optional subject-verb agreement
marking in low and high intermediate adult L2 speakers of English: Partial support for the Contextual Complexity Hypothesis
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This issue: A comparative study of hard news and business news press releases | The effect of Japanese speakers of
English on the pronunciation of native English speakers | The structure of Japanese causatives | The macrostructure of Japanese and English
PhD theses | The effect of local discourse coherence on pronoun resolution | The status of yalli/lli in Lattakian Syrian Arabic |
The perception and production of English by Pakistani learners and a study of Mexican Spanish interaction
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This issue: Against backward control analyses of Japanese tokuro-clauses | The effects of text types and L2 reading
proficiency on Saudi L2 students' reading problems | Strategies for processing texts and phonological constraints on binomials in Iraqi Arabic with
reference to English
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This issue: Implementing a fragment of Modern Greek grammar, using the Xerox Linguistics Environment (XLE) | Considering teachers'
beliefs and classroom practices in relation to ESP and EGP teaching methodology | Experimental approaches to Spanish stress placement | A-movement out of
control clauses and the status of CP phase