Research output per year
Research output per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Research in Linguistics and English Language at The University of Manchester is characterized by an exceptional breadth of expertise.
We investigate all aspects of language structure (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) and their interactions from a wide variety of perspectives (formal, typological, historical, developmental, societal, and cultural).
Our work breaks down traditional boundaries in a number of ways: for example, by pursuing syntheses of synchronic and diachronic explanation; by driving theory development through the use of data from under-described languages and non-standard varieties; by testing formal models against quantitative data from sociolinguistic variation and laboratory experimentation; and by bridging the division between linguistic and cultural studies, with particular reference to the creation of identity.
The empirical base of our research is outstandingly broad, not only methodologically, but also typologically. Thus, alongside an exceptionally large cluster of experts on English language, we have particular strengths in Romance, Germanic, Indo-Iranian, the languages of Latin America, and the languages of Australia.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Profiles
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Maciej Baranowski
- Linguistics and English Language (L5) - Senior Lecturer in English Sociolinguist
Person: Academic
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Delia Bentley
- Linguistics and English Language (L5) - Professor of Romance Linguistics
Person: Academic
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15-Year trends, predictors, and outcomes of heart failure hospitalization complicating first acute myocardial infarction in the modern percutaneous coronary intervention era
Rashid, M., Abramov, D., Naseer, M. U., Van Spall, H. G. C., Ahmed, F. Z., Lawson, C., Dafaalla, M., Kontopantelis, E., Mohamed, M. O., Petrie, M. C. & Mamas, M. A., 1 Mar 2025, In: European Heart Journal Open. 5, 2, oeaf013.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dimensionality reduction in lingual articulation of vowels: Evidence from lax vowels in Northern Anglo-English
Strycharczuk, P., Kirkham, S., Gorman, E. & Nagamine, T., 25 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Language and Speech.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Estimating transmission noise on networks from stationary local order
Kitching, C., Kauhanen, H., Abbott, J., Gopal, D., Bermúdez-Otero, R. & Galla, T., 6 May 2025, In: Europhysics Letters. 150, 3, 31002.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
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Learning mechanisms influencing infants’ early socio-pragmatic abilities
Salter, G., Bannard, C., Fricke, S., Hancock, E., Levickis, P., Pavlou-Rodriguez, A., Pine, J. M., Solaiman, K., Smith, E., Thornton, E., Willis, M. & Matthews, D., 26 May 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Multiple source explanation in language change: the emergence of auxiliary do
Breban, T., Börjars, K. & Moretti, L., Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Diachronica.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Centre for Digital Trust and Society
Barrett, E. (PI), Allmendinger, R. (Researcher), Elliot, M. (Researcher), Lord, N. (Researcher), Cordeiro, L. (Researcher), Gibson, R. (Researcher), Papamarkou, T. (Researcher), Dresner, D. (Researcher), Buil-Gil, D. (Researcher), Aldridge, J. (Researcher), Duncan, P. (Researcher), Banach, R. (Researcher), Brown, G. (Researcher), Dennis, L. (Researcher), Fisher, M. (Researcher), Korovin, K. (Researcher), Kotselidis, C.-E. (Researcher), Luján, M. (Researcher), Mustafa, M. (Researcher), Olivier, P. (Researcher), Reger, G. (Researcher), Zhang, N. (Researcher), Hodgkinson, G. (Researcher), Gulati, S. (Researcher), Ainsworth, J. (Researcher), Chen, Y.-W. (Researcher), Green, B. (Researcher), Healey, M. (Researcher), Uyarra, E. (Researcher), Zachariadis, M. (Researcher), Little, C. (Researcher), Mackey, E. (Researcher), Nenadic, G. (Researcher), Keane, J. (Researcher), Shlomo, N. (Researcher), Laskowski, N. (Researcher), Jarwar, M. A. (Researcher), Shariati Samani, S. (Researcher), Smith, D. (Researcher), Kambites, M. (Researcher), Thorpe, M. (Researcher), Rowley, P. (Researcher), Flynn, S. (Researcher), Turner, P. (Researcher), Wainwright, V. (Researcher), Czerwinsky, A. (PGR student), Nini, A. (Researcher), Broad, R. (Researcher), Shute, J. (Researcher), Deakin, J. (Researcher), Taboada, P. (PGR student), Knight, P. (Researcher), Hutchings, S. (Researcher), Whyte, J. (Researcher), Tolz-Zilitinkevic, V. (Researcher), Pilkington, H. (Researcher), Guharoy, S. (Researcher), Nicolo, A. (Researcher), Reggiani, C. (Researcher), Garcia Oliva, J. (Researcher), Van Someren, A. (Researcher), Bon, E. (Researcher), Cantijoch Cunill, M. (Researcher), Koch, D. (Researcher) & Chen, Y.-W. (Researcher)
11/05/21 → …
Project: Other
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RAI: Centre for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Cangelosi, A. (PI), Lennox, B. (PI), Weightman, A. (CoI), Dennis, L. (CoI), Dixon, C. (CoI), Fisher, M. (CoI), Herrmann, G. (CoI), Dickson, A. (CoI), Lanzon, A. (CoI), Stancu, A. (CoI), Miller, A. (CoI), Freitas, A. (CoI), Nini, A. (CoI), Voronkov, A. (CoI), Brass, A. (CoI), Vijayaraghavan, A. (CoI), Parslew, B. (CoI), crowther, W. (CoI), Grieve, B. (CoI), Adorno, B. (CoI), Jay, C. (CoI), Wang, C. C. L. (CoI), Todd, C. (CoI), Soutis, C. (CoI), Arsene, C. (CoI), Dresner, D. (CoI), Barrett, E. (CoI), Gowen, E. (CoI), Arvin, F. (CoI), Podd, F. (CoI), Brown, G. (CoI), Reger, G. (CoI), Cooper, G. (CoI), Mairs, H. (CoI), Yin, H. (CoI), Kinloch, I. (CoI), Eleftheriou, I. (CoI), Li, J. (CoI), Carrasco Gomez, J. (CoI), Ainsworth, J. (CoI), Sinha, J. (CoI), Ozanyan, K. (CoI), Smith, K. (CoI), Twomey, K. (CoI), Margetts, L. (CoI), Ren, L. (CoI), Zhang, L. (CoI), Cordeiro, L. (CoI), Rattray, M. (PI), Bissett, M. (CoI), Elliot, M. (CoI), Alvarez, M. (CoI), Luján, M. (CoI), Nabawy BSc, MSc, PhD, MRAeS, SMAIAA, FHEA, M. (CoI), Peek, N. (CoI), Marjanovic, O. (CoI), Dorn, O. (CoI), Dudek, P. (CoI), Green, P. (CoI), Connolly, P. (CoI), Da Silva Bartolo, P. J. (CoI), Gardner, P. (CoI), Martin, P. (CoI), Potluri, P. (CoI), Curtis, R. (CoI), Schmidt, R. (CoI), Banach, R. (CoI), Batista-Navarro, R. T. (CoI), Kaski, S. (CoI), Midson, S. (CoI), Watson, S. (CoI), Holm, S. (CoI), Furber, S. (CoI), Schlegel, V. (CoI), Mirihanage, W. (CoI), Mansell, W. (CoI), Pan, W. (CoI), Sampson, W. (CoI), Sellers, W. (CoI), Yang, W. (CoI), Cai, P. (CoI), Sun, Y. (CoI), Alharthi, A. (Researcher), Macario Rojas, A. (Researcher), Serhan, B. (Researcher), Yu, C. (Researcher), Abara, D. (Researcher), Lopez Pulgarin, E. (Researcher), Faruq, F. (Researcher), Tavella, F. (Researcher), Semeraro, F. (Researcher), Liu, G. (Researcher), Fang, G. (Researcher), Niu, H. (Researcher), Taylor, H. (PI), Zhu, H. (PGR student), Collenette, J. (Researcher), Amano, K. (Researcher), Lo, K. C. J. (PGR student), Raggioli, L. (Researcher), Romeo, M. (Researcher), Ruocco, M. (PGR student), Ghaffari Saadat, M. (Researcher), Walmsley, M. (Researcher), Mubarik, A. (Researcher), Vinanzi, S. (Researcher), Su, Y.-H. (PGR student), McAleese, H. (PGR student), Stringer, P. (PGR student), Stoican, R. (PGR student), Ye, R. (PGR student), Kurawa, S. S. (PGR student), Zhang, T. (PGR student), Krywonos, W. (PGR student), Xu, Y. (PGR student), Tian, Y. (PGR student), Henderson, A. (Technical team), Morley, D. (Support team), Tallentire, J. (Support team), Smith, J. (Support team), Hawthornthwaite, S. (Support team), Carlson, J. (Support team) & Baniqued, P. D. (Researcher)
Project: Research
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A voter-model approach to the distribution and dynamics of typological features of language
Bermúdez-Otero, R. (PI), Galla, T. (CoI), Kauhanen, H. (Researcher) & Gopal, D. (Researcher)
15/09/21 → 14/06/24
Project: Research
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The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change
Hansen, M.-B. M. (PI)
1/09/21 → 31/08/23
Project: Research
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The lexical semantics of lexical categories
Koontz-Garboden, A. (PI)
1/09/18 → 31/08/24
Project: Research
Impacts
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ESRC Knowledge Exchange Grant: English Language Teaching Programme for non-English speaking low-income mothers.
Cameron-Faulkner, T. (Participant)
Impact: Societal impacts
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Forensic linguistic authorship analysis of disputed texts
Nini, A. (Participant)
Impact: Legal impacts, Societal impacts
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Improving the lives of Romani migrants in Western Europe
Yaron Matras (Participant)
Impact: Cultural impacts, Societal impacts
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Number and recursion: the popular understanding of language
Daniel Everett (Participant)
Impact: Cultural impacts, Societal impacts
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Promoting recognition and status of the Romani language
Yaron Matras (Participant), Dieter Halwachs (Participant) & Peter Bakker (Participant)
Impact: Cultural impacts, Societal impacts
Activities
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9th International Conference on Discourse Markers in Romance Languages
Hansen, M.-B. M. (Member of programme committee)
10 Jun 2026 → 12 Jun 2026Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Research
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Speakers, Hearers, and Their Respective Meanings: the Limits of Common Ground
Hansen, M.-B. M. (Chair) & Terkourafi, M. (Co-Chair)
22 Jun 2025 → 27 Jun 2025Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc › Research
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The Emergence and Development of the Danish Modal Particle Paradigm
Hansen, M.-B. M. (Examiner)
10 Jun 2025Activity: Examination › Research
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Can AI fool a forensic linguist? Detecting AI impersonation of an individual’s language
Zeng, B. (Speaker) & Nini, A. (Speaker)
6 Jun 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research
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Bridging contexts revisited. Core properties and the role of salience vs frequency
Hansen, M.-B. M. (Invited speaker)
28 May 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Datasets
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The Parsed Corpus of Middle English Poetry (PCMEP)
Zimmermann, R. (Creator), University of Manchester, Department of Linguistics and English Language, 2015
Dataset
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Kriol Structures Dataset
Schultze-Berndt, E. (Creator) & Angelo, D. (Creator), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2013
http://apics-online.info/contributions/25
Dataset
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Jaminjung Valency Patterns
Schultze-Berndt, E. (Creator), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2013
http://valpal.info/languages/jaminjung
Dataset
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Kriol structure dataset
Schultze-Berndt, E. (Creator) & Angelo, D. (Creator), University of Manchester, 2013
http://apics-online.info/contributions/25
Dataset
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Gaeltacht Corpus (CHILDES database)
Cameron-Faulkner, T. (Creator) & Hickey, T. (Creator), University of Manchester, 2011
DOI: 10.21415/T5202F, https://childes.talkbank.org/access/Celtic/Irish/Gaeltacht.html
Dataset
Prizes
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Addition international tuition fees ≈ £52,500
Ke, C. (Recipient), 21 May 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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AHRC NWCDTP +3 PhD Award (2023-2026) ≈ £67,500
Ke, C. (Recipient), 20 May 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Arthur Abramson Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Teaching
Villa-Garcia, J. (Recipient), 13 Aug 2010
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Best Dissertation or Written Work within the School of Arts and Media
Donlan, L. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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English, Politics and Contemporary History Directorate Award
Donlan, L. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Press/Media
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VARIOUS MEDIA: Jack the Ripper letter mystery solved by Manchester researcher
1/02/18 → 26/01/24
3 items of Media coverage, 1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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The Dickens Code project and forensic authorship analysis
20/12/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
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Accent variation in Southeast England
Cole, A. & Strycharczuk, P.
27/10/23 → 5/11/23
7 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Forensic linguistic analysis used for appeal against accusation of using AI to write coursework
10/07/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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"Tracking the dance of the tongue using ultrasound imaging"
Kirkham, S. & Strycharczuk, P.
1/11/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research