{"id":175,"date":"2026-08-04T14:29:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:22:33","slug":"class-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/undergraduate-dissertations\/class-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Papers are listed alphabetically by surname.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bearpark, G. (2025). <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/files\/2026\/08\/Bearpark_2025.pdf\">Cross linguistic influence in the acquisition of WH questions by French-English bilingual children: a comparison with monolingual French children.<\/a> Short Dissertation; BA Linguistics with French. <em>Supervisor<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/elll\/people\/profile\/rebeccawoods.html\">Dr Rebecca Woods<\/a>.<br><em><sub>*This dissertation was also awarded one of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain&#8217;s Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics (OUDiL) prizes in 2025.<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dobinson, I. (2025).<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/files\/2026\/08\/Dobinson_2025.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/files\/2026\/08\/Dobinson_2025.pdf\">The influence of spoken thematic role order on non-verbal behaviour: A study of patient-initial and actor-initial structures in the gestures of native English speakers.<\/a> Long Dissertation: BA Linguistics. <em>Supervisor<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/elll\/people\/profile\/rebeccawoods.html\">Dr Rebecca Woods.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doherty, T.E. (2025).<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/files\/2026\/08\/Doherty_2025.pdf\">Mapping metaphor: The &#8216;heart&#8217; and &#8216;face&#8217; of Thai Nirat.<\/a> Short Dissertation: BA Linguistics. <em>Supervisor<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/elll\/people\/profile\/gabrielmartinez-vera.html\">Dr Gabriel Martinez Vera.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MacNeil, A. (2025).<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/files\/2026\/08\/MacNeil_2025.pdf\">&#8220;Are you joking?&#8221;: Investigating cognitive pragmatic abilities in LLMs.<\/a> Short Dissertation: BA Linguistics with French. <em>Supervisor<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ccuskley.github.io\/\">Dr Christine Cuskley.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Masters, S. (2025).<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/files\/2026\/08\/Masters_2025.pdf\">Press &#8220;A&#8221; to continue: Limited evidence that gaming experiences may influence backchannel rates.<\/a> Long Dissertation: BA Linguistics. <em>Supervisor<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/elll\/people\/profile\/danielduncan.html\">Dr Daniel Duncan.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Orokpo, E. (2025). <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/files\/2026\/08\/Orokpo_2025.pdf\">Children&#8217;s understanding of the Maxim of Manner.<\/a> Long Dissertation: BA Linguistics. <em>Supervisor<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/elll\/people\/profile\/emmanguyen.html\">Dr Emma Nguyen.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rijkse, S. (2025).<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/files\/2026\/08\/Rijkse_2025.pdf\">The role of intonation pattern in influencing the perception of coxswain calls.<\/a> Long Dissertation: BA Linguistics. <em>Supervisor<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/elll\/people\/profile\/roryturnbull.html\">Dr Rory Turnbull.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papers are listed alphabetically by surname. Bearpark, G. (2025). Cross linguistic influence in the acquisition of WH questions by French-English bilingual children: a comparison with monolingual French children. 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Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Woods.*This dissertation was also awarded one of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain&#8217;s Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/undergraduate-dissertations\/class-of-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Class of 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"parent":141,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions\/198"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/elldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}