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Manchet is thrilled to report that Alina Mclellan has successfully passed her viva. This achievement crowns Alina’s nine-year presence at the University of Manchester, first as an undergraduate student (2014–18), then an MA student (2018-19), and finally a PhD candidate. Alina’s PhD thesis, supervised by Delia Bentley and Eva Schultze-Berndt is on “Relative and cleft […]
December 17, 2021 by manling
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Congratulations to Juliette Angot on passing her viva! Juliette’s dissertation, supervised by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Martina Faller, is on “Epistemic and subjective expressions in French: the case of ‘je pense’, ‘je crois’, and ‘je trouve’.” The examiners were LEL’s Eva Schultze-Berndt and Kate Beeching (UWE, via Zoom). Pictured below is Juliette with her committee. […]
October 4, 2021 by manling
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We have a number of new PGR students joining us this year at LEL. You can learn more about them below, and you can look forward to Manchet reporting about their scientific adventures. Welcome! I undertook a BA in English Language and Literature at the University of Barcelona, where I am from. I did my Erasmus year at UoM […]
September 20, 2021 by manling
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It’s the first day of the new academic year, so welcome back everyone, and an especially warm welcome to our two new colleagues: Colin Bannard and Serge Sagna. Colin (pictured right, he’s the human one with clothes on) received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, and he has since worked in Lepizig, Austin (Texas) […]
September 7, 2021 by manling
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Manchet may have said something yesterday about new academic year coming, and nothing screams NEW ACADEMIC YEAR louder than the time-honoured tradition of the departmental hike. We are pleased to announce that the hike is back after a Covid-induced hiatus, and we have been able to obtain photographic evidence! There is talk of 29,000 steps. […]
May 20, 2021 by manling
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Linguistics and astrophysics may be an unlikely combination, but it’s proving to be a winning one! We already know it from the study of geospatial distribution of linguistic features by Henri Kauhanen, Deepthi Gopal, Tobias Galla and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero in Sciences Advances, and it seems these four are not done yet. In most recent news, […]
May 5, 2021 by manling
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We have a new doctor! LEL’s Stephen Nichols has passed his viva, defending a thesis on “Explorations in the phonology, typology and grounding of height harmony in five-vowel Bantu languages”. The thesis is a multi-pronged approach to investigating the causes and the typological characteristics of vowel harmony, bringing in new data from several Bantu languages. […]
November 16, 2020 by manling
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Readers of Manchet are no strangers to Donald Morrison, who has featured regularly on these pages with his impressive publications, and his handsome pets. As of today, Donald is Doctor Donald after he sailed through his viva, passing it with *no corrections*. Donald’s thesis is titled “Modularity and stratification in phonology: Evidence from Scottish Gaelic”, […]
October 16, 2020 by manling
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Congratulations to Maj-Britt for winning a prestigious AHRC Research Networking Grant! The project will focus on The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change. The Co-I is Prof Richard Waltereit (Humboldt U, Berlin), and the network consists of 22 senior and junior colleagues from Europe, North America, the Middle East and the Far East.
December 5, 2019 by manling
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It’s Manchet’s favourite type of post: a successful PhD viva. Stefano Coretta, has defended his thesis titled ‘Vowel duration and consonant voicing: A production study’. Beneath this unassuming title hides a volume of immense complexity. Here’s Manchet’s own simplified synopsis. The vowel in tap is shorter than vowel in tab, and we see a similar […]
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April 18, 2023 by manling
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