Speech and Hearing Sciences: PhD Theses

Tanja Kocjančič (2010) Ultrasound and acoustic analysis of lingual movement in teenagers with Childhood Apraxia of Speech, control adults and typically developing children. PhD, QMU. Rebecca Rodger (2010) Voice quality of children and young people with Down's Syndrome and its impact on listener judgement. PhD, QMU. [phd on e-theses] Joanne Cleland (2010) Speech and prosody in developmental disorders: Autism and Down's Syndrome. PhD, QMU. [was Joanne McCann] Esther de Leeuw (2009) When your native language sounds foreign: a phonetic investigation into first language attrition. PhD, QMU. [pdf on e-theses] Lianne Carroll (2007) Language development and its relationship with theory of mind in schoolage children with high functioning autism. PhD, QMU. [pdf on e-theses] Natalia Zharkova (2007) An investigation of coarticulation resistance in speech production using ultrasound. PhD, QMU. [pdf on e-theses] Ioulia Grichkovtsova (2006) A cross-linguistic study of the production of affective prosody by monolingual and bilingual children (Scottish English and French). PhD, QMU. [pdf on e-theses ] Helen McGrane (2006) An investigation into the ability of adults with post-stroke aphasia to learn new vocabulary. PhD, QMUC. [pdf] [Now Helen Kelly] Olga B. Gordeeva (2005) Language Interaction in the Bilingual Acquisition of Sound Structure: a longitudinal study of vowel quality, duration and vocal effort in pre-school children speaking Scottish English and Russian. PhD, QMUC. [pdf] and [pdf on e-theses ] Susanne Fuchs (2005) Articulatory Correlates of the Voicing Contrast in Alveolar Obstruent Production in German. PhD, QMUC. [Revised version published by ZAS and available online there, and for convenience here] Richard Mullooly (2004) An Electromagnetic-Articulograph Study of Alternating [r] and the Effects of Emphatic Stress on the Articulation of Rhotic Consonants. PhD, QMUC. [pdf] Fay Windsor (2002) An acoustic investigation of gestural organisation for speech in typically developing children, phonologically disordered children and adults: a cross -sectional and longitudinal study. PhD, QMUC. Anne P. Walton (2002) Communication in young people with intellectual impairments: the influence of partnership. PhD, QMUC. Matthews, Ben M. (2001) On variability and the acquisition of vowels in normally developing Scottish children (18-36 months). PhD, QMUC. [abstract] [available online as zip] Stansfield, Jois Elizabeth (2001) Education for practice: the development of competence in speech and language therapy students. EdD, University of Durham. [abstract] Ellis, Lucy Anne (2000) An Instrumental Study of Alveolar to Velar Assimilation in Slow and Fast Speech using EPG and EMA Techniques. PhD, QMUC. Mayo, Catherine (2000) The Relationship between Phonemic Awareness and Cue Weighting in Speech Perception: Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Studies. PhD, QMUC. Cohen, Wendy M.M. (1999) Measuring Speech Motor Skills in Phonologically Disordered Pre-school Children and thir Normally Developing Peers. PhD, Open University/QMUC. Hodson, Ann (1999) A Longitudinal Study into the Relationship between Speech Motor Control and Language Processing Skills of Scottish Children Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. PhD Open University/QMUC. [now Ann Clark] Mack, Siobhan Kathryn (1999) Single-route and dual-route approaches to reading aloud difficulties associated with dysphasia. PhD, QMUC. Gibbon, Fiona E. (1998) Lingual articulation in children with developmental speech disorders. PhD Thesis, University of Luton. [copies available from Fiona ] Nairn, Moray (1997) Perceptual and Acoustic Gender Differences in the Speech of 4 1/2 - 5 1/2 year old children. PhD, Open University/Queen Margaret College. Watson, Jocelynne Margaret Maxwell (1997) Sibilant-Vowel Coarticulation in the Perception of Speech by Children with Phonological Disorders. PhD, Open University/Queen Margaret College. Wood, Sara Elizabeth (1997) An Electropalatographic Study of Speech Sound Errors in Adults with Acquired Aphasia. PhD, Open University/Queen Margaret College. Dean, Elizabeth Claire (1995) A study of the relationship between phonological awareness and phonological processing in four and five year old children. PhD, Open University/Queen Margaret College. Waters, Daphne Margaret (1992) An investigation of motor control for speech in phonologically delayed children, normally developing children and adults. PhD, Council for National Academic Awards/Queen Margaret College. Watson, Colin (1992) An acoustic investigation into higher partial enhancement in the voices of a group of opera singers. PhD, Council for National Academic Awards/Queen Margaret College.