Current Lexical Studies PhD students

Kimberly Klassen Vocabulary Load of Proper Nouns in L2 Reading Texts Supervisor: Tess Fitzpatrick	Mark Maby Second Language Learners’ Acquisition of Polysemous Words Supervisor: Tess Fitzpatrick
Peter Thwaites Linguistic and Semantic constraints on Word Associations responses Supervisor: Tess Fitzpatrick	John Racine Word Association and Lexical Processing: Cognitive Approaches and Methodological Issues Supervisor: Tess Fitzpatrick
Matthew Rooks Autonomous vocabulary acquisition: How learner choices affect lexical ability Supervisor: Tess Fitzpatrick	Dale Brown Japanese learners’ productive knowledge of English collocations Supervisor: Tess Fitzpatrick
Jeffrey Stewart Assessing the dimensionality of common constructs of L2 vocabulary knowledge Supervisors: Tess Fitzpatrick and Alison Way	Paula Psyllakis Circumlocution and Alzheimer’s Discourse: What is said when one can’t find the words Supervisor: Alison Wray
Mike Green The Role of Phonological Patterns and Etymology in the Acquisition of Formulaic Sequences: Pedagogical Implications for Second Language Learning Supervisor: Alison Wray	Stephen Cutler The role of formulaic language in speech memorisation and production in L2 speakers of English Supervisor: Alison Wray
Caroline Handley The mental lexicon: Stable construct or dynamic situated conceptualizations? Supervisor: Tess Fitzpatrick	Tom Caton What effect does short term Study Abroad (SA) have on learners’ vocabulary knowledge? Supervisor: Tess Fitzpatrick

Staff Profiles

Professor Tess Fitzpatrick My research interests are in the areas of lexical processing, second language acquisition, word association studies, vocabulary measurement tools. I direct the PhD programme in Applied Linguistics, which focuses on vocabulary research, and which is designed for part-time distance study	Professor Alison Wray My research interests are in the areas of formulaic language; language profiling; evolution of language; psycholinguistic theory; communication by and with people with dementia.
Professor Paul Meara My research interests lie in the areas of Vocabulary Acquisition, Mental Lexicons, Simulations of Lexical Processes, Bibliometrics.	Dr Dawn Knight My research interests lie in the areas of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexico-grammar, digital interaction, non-verbal communication and the socio-linguistic contexts of communication.