Former PhD students (with year of defence and thesis title)

  • Myles, F. 1990: Error and order in the acquisition of French as a second language. (University of Sheffield).

  • Chan, C. Y-H. 1995: The acquisition of restrictive relative clauses by Chinese L1 learners of L2 English.

  • Shelton, J. 1997: Second language acquisition of grammatical gender and agreement in French.

  • Bazergui, N. 1997: Theoretical implications of the structure of IP in Cameroonian Pidgin English.

  • Youhanaee, M. 1997: The acquisition of the English complementizer phrase by adult Persian speakers.

  • Kiss-Gulyas, J. 1998: The acquisition of restrictive relative clauses by Hungarian learners of English.

  • Wong, B. E. 1999: Acquisition of wh-movement in English questions and relative clauses by speakers of Malay.

  • Kong, S. 2000: Acquisition of obligatory English pronouns by speakers of discourse-oriented Chinese.

  • Panagiotidis, E. 2000: Empty nouns, the internal structure of pronouns and the categorial nature of functional heads.

  • Liszka, S. 2002: The development of tense and the present perfect in second language English.

  • Franceschina, F. 2002: The nature of grammatical representations in mature L2 grammars: the case of Spanish grammatical gender.

  • Lozano, C. 2003: Focus, pronouns and word order in the acquisition of L2 and L3 Spanish.

  • Al-Hamad, M. 2003: Morphological and syntactic properties in the acquisition of Arabic as a second language: implications for a theory of SLA and for teaching.

  • Thomas, E. 2004: Second language acquisition of prepositions: functional and substantive features.

  • Hattori, H. 2004: The acquisition of wh-movement by Japanese advanced learners of English.

  • Ojima, S. 2004: Theory and evidence in second language research: the acquisition of English by native speakers of Japanese.

  • Okuwaki, N. 2005: Acquisition of tense and aspect in L2 English by Japanese speakers.

  • Yamada, K. 2005: The Overt Pronoun Constraint and null objects in second language Japanese.

  • Jiang, L. 2005: Acquisition of pronominal and reflexive binding in English by speakers of Chinese.

  • Athanasopoulos, P. 2005: The effects of L2 acquisition on cognition: the case of number.

  • Hawthorne, J. 2005: The acquisition of prepositional constructions and their associated Case-marking properties in the L2 German of L1 English speakers.

  • Okamoto, A. 2006: The acquisition of Japanese transitivity alternations by native speakers of English.

  • Matsunaga, K. 2006: L1 transfer of lexical argument structure in the L2 acquisition of English: a study of unaccusative/unergative verbs and motion verbs.

  • Casillas, G. 2006: The development of tense, aspect and agreement morphology in second language English.

  • Snape, N. 2006: The acquisition of the English determiner phrase by Japanese and Spanish learners of English.

  • Rezai, M. J. 2006: The acquisition of Case-determined properties by Persian speakers of English.

  • Ortega, M. 2006: The acquisition of tense and aspect features in second language English by native speakers of Spanish and Chinese.

  • Husted, R. 2007: The role of linguistic knowledge and input in the early acquisition of vocabulary by L2 learners.

  • Matthews, G. 2007: Second language acquisition of English reflexives by Taiwanese speakers of Mandarin Chinese.

  • Sarantis, K. (2008) Acquisition of English dative and locative alternations by L1 speakers of Greek and German.

  • Velasco-Zarate, K. (2008) Second language acquisition of Spanish determiners: articles and clitics.

  • Chan, M. (2008) Acquisition of ‘be’ by Cantonese ESL learners in Hong Kong and its pedagogical implications.

  • Kondo, T. (2008) The acquisition of argument structure properties in second language acquisition.

  • Jaensch, C. (2008) The acquisition of articles and adjective endings in L2 and L3 German.

  • Al-Eid, S. (2008) Acquisition of English question formation by native speakers of Arabic.

  • Na Ranong, S. (2009) Investigating lexical and syntactic transfer in L3 acquisition: the case of L1 Thai-L2 English-L3 Chinese.

  • Almahboob, I. (2009) Acquisition of English articles by native speakers of Arabic.

  • Hajjar, M. (2009) The acquisition of the English article system by adult Syrian and Japanese L2 learners.

  • Hu, Y. (2009) Acquisition of English verb-prepositional phrase and verb-particle constructions by native speakers of Mandarin and Spanish.

  • Sarko, G. (2009) The acquisition of the English article system by L1 speakers of Syrian Arab and French learners of English.

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