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Prof. Amalia Arvaniti

Head of Department Amalia is one of the pioneers of Laboratory Phonology which uses experimental research methods to test linguistic models of sound structure. Her research on prosody, which has been widely published and cited, has yielded crucial insights into the production, perception and linguistic structure of intonation and has challenged traditional views on the nature of speech rhythm and rhythmic typology. A large part of her research has contributed significantly to our knowledge on Greek phonetics and phonology and to aspects of Greek dialectology and sociolinguistic variation. Amalia welcomes inquiries from prospective graduate students interested in working on any topic pertaining to the production and perception of prosody, the relationship between phonetics and phonology, and the role of variation in language structure and use.

Dr David Hornsby: Senior Lecturer

David's research and publications focus primarily on dialect death and the emergence of new vernacular varieties in France. He also retains an interest in wider theoretical issues relating to language variation and change, and is currently working on a Kentish English project. He is happy to supervise research which investigates dialect mixing or dialect death; language variation and change; dialectology; language death, revival and revitalisation; sociolinguistics of French, history of the French language, and phonological and grammatical change in modern Russian.

He is the author of Redefining Regional French: Koinéization and Dialect Levelling in Northern France (2006), is editor of Interfaces in Language 2 and is co-editing a volume entitled Language and Social Structure in Urban France.

Dr Vikki Janke: Lecturer

Vikki's current projects in syntactic theory include analyses of English VP-structure. Interests in language acquisition include those in typical and atypical populations, focusing on the acquisition of floating quantifiers, particles and double-complement constructions. She is compiling a developmental profile of control in autism, with a view to gaining a better understanding of aspects of complex grammar in this population.

A current psycholinguistics project focuses on the lexical representation of cognates. This study forms the first of a number, whose aim is to form a comparison between lexical levels of representation in the L2-learner with that of the native speaker. She is willing to supervise any areas related to the above.

Dr Marina Kolokonte: Lecturer

Marina's research has focused on elliptical phenomena in English, Modern Greek and Spanish, with particular emphasis on the interaction of ellipsis with information structure (focus and topic-hood). Her research interests lie in the field of syntactic theory in general, and especially the interaction of syntax with other components of grammar, such as semantics and pragmatics in Romance and Greek linguistics. She is willing to supervise research in any of these areas.

Dr Luisa Marti: Lecturer

Luisa teaches and researches on semantics and its interfaces with morpho-syntax and pragmatics. She teaches introduction to linguistics, morphology, semantics, research methods in linguistics and related areas. She has published work on quantifier domain restriction, the expression of indefiniteness cross-linguistically, empty categories, natural language quantification and experimental semantics. She is happy to supervise research in these areas.

Dr Jeremy Scott: Senior Lecturer

Jeremy teaches and researches on the border between language and literary studies. Specifically, he teaches in the areas of stylistics, narrative and narratology, critical linguistic, literary and cultural theory, and also teaches creative writing. His current research interests are in language and narrative, fictional technique, literary representations of dialect, the relationship between narratives and identity, interfaces between stylistics and creative writing, and portrayals of Englishness in fiction. His book The Demotic Voice in Contemporary British Fiction was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009 and a new short story, Eucharist (or The Lark Ascending), appeared in Routledge's New Writing in 2009.

Jeremy is interested in supervising research in stylistics (especially of contemporary fiction), narratology, dialects in literature, fictional explorations of identity, and creative writing (particularly in terms of its relationship to stylistics and critical theory).

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Prof. Amalia Arvaniti
English Language and Linguistics
School of European Culture and Languages
University of Kent, Cantebury
Kent CT2 7NF
T: +44 (0) 1227 827734
E: a.arvaniti@kent.ac.uk

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