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RESEARCH |
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Funded projects |
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2012 |
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Hans Rausing Endangered Language Documentation Project Small Grant: A preliminary documentation of Siluyana: Comparing Mbowe and Mwenyi. |
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This project makes an
initial documentation of two Bantu languages in
Western Zambia that lie at the boundary of
Eastern and Western Bantu. It is conducted in
collaboration with Mildred Nkolola and NW Mundia
of the University of Zambia. |
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2011-2013 |
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British Academy Small Grant: Tonal change in the evolution of a tense system. |
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This project investigates
the use of tonally marked past tense in two
dialects of Bemba from Northern Zambia and from
the Copperbelt. It contributes to our
understanding of dialect variation and
historical change in Bantu. |
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2010
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University of Essex Linguistics Departmental Research Incentive Scheme: The role of complexity in L2 segmental acquisition. |
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This project investigated the L3 acquisition of English mid vowels by L1 speakers of Tashylhit Berber with L2 Moroccan Arabic and French. This work was done in collaboration with Nabila Louriz. Results were reported at OCP8 and a paper on the findings is in preparation. |
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2004-2007 |
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Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Veni-programme - Innovational Research Incentives Scheme |
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The phrasal phonology of Bantu languages. |
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This project investigated what role prosody and phonology have to play in the organization of syntax and argued for a phonology first approach to the interface with particular reference to Bemba. Results were presented at various conferences and published in Journals and edited books (see Cheng & Kula 2006, Kula 2007, Kula & Cheng 2007, Costa and Kula 2008, Kula & Marten 2011) |
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2003 |
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Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Talent Research Fellowship: Suffix ordering in Bantu. |
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This project investigated phonological
constraints on suffix-ordering in Bantu arguing
for a domain based approach differentiating
inflectional and derivational domains in
phonology as argued in Kula (2002). Results are
reported in Kula (2003). |
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International collaboration |
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2011 |
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African Anaphora Project contribution on Bemba |
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2008-2011 |
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European Network Project funded by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research: Structure of nouns and noun phrases in Bantu, Chinese and Romance. Project partners from: University of Leiden, SOAS, University of Essex, ZAS, University of Trieste and University of Verona. |
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2008-2011 |
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British Academy UK-Africa Network project: Language and linguistic studies of Southern African languages. Project partners from: SOAS, University of Durban, University of Essex, University of Namibia and University of Botswana. |
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2003-2006 |
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British Academy international network project: Bantu grammar, theory and description. Project partners from: SOAS, University of Leiden and ZAS (Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin) |
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Internal Examining |
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Yu Ikemoto (2011) Psycholinguistic studies of derivational morphology in Japanese. (External examiner: Yuki Kamide) |
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Morris Al Omar (2011) Assimilation processes in Syrian Arabic. (External examiner: Sam Hellmuth) |
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Mohammed Faez (2010) Phonological processes of Persian. (External examiner: Judith Broadbent) |
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Ghisseh Sarako (2009) The Acquisition of the English Article system by L1 Syrian Arab and French Learners of English. (External examiner: Richard Towell) |
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João Veríssimo (2009) Stems and Rules: A dual-mechanism account of verbal stem formation in Portuguese. (External examiner: William Marslen-Wilson) |
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Belal A. Rakhieh (2008) The Phonology of Ma’ani Arabic: Stratal or Parallel OT. (External examiner: Janet Watson) |
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PhD Supervision |
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I am
happy to supervise MA and PhD students in any
area of phonology including
phonology-morphology interface, second language
phonology, prosodic-phonology and the
phonology-syntax interface. |
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Current PhD students |
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Nasir Syed: L2 phonological acquisition of consonants by L1 Saraiki learners of English |
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Naledi Kgolo: Morphological processing in Tswana (with Sonja Eisenbeiss) |
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Woroud Melhem: Phonological and morpho-syntactic constraints on the L2 acquisition of tense by L1 Syrian Arabic learners of English (with Roger Hawkins) |
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Afaf Fakhri: L2 phonological acquisition of consonant clusters by L1 Libyan Arabic (Tripolitanian & Sabha) learners of English |
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Other Activities |