About

Research interests

  • Semantics of complex words and multiword expressions

  • Relationship between lexical semantics and pragmatics

  • Relationship between phonetic detail and word meaning

  • Phonological prominence

  • The role of predictability in language production and processing

  • Individual differences in production and interpretation of multiword expressions

  • The boundary between word-formation and syntax

  • Second language acquisition

  • Approaches to learning and teaching

  • Communication in nursing and psychiatry

Areas of research supervision

  • Word formation and the mental lexicon

  • Phonetics and phonology of English

  • Second language acquisition

  • Approaches to learning and teaching

  • Communication in nursing and psychiatry

Melanie has successfully supervised MA and PhD dissertations in the areas of English linguistics, second language acquisition and language teaching. She is interested in supervising projects on any of the topics listed above. She would also be interested in supervising projects that apply empirical and quantitative techniques to the study of language more generally.

Teaching

  • Language and Data

  • English Phonetics and Phonology

  • Research Methods in English Language, Linguistics and TESOL

  • Empirical Linguistics

  • Undergraduate Major Project in English Language, Linguistics and TESOL

Melanie is an Anglia Ruskin University Teaching Fellow


Qualifications

  • PhD English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge

  • MPhil English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge

  • BA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge

  • RSA DipTEFL


Memberships and editorial boards

  • Member of UK Economic and Social Research Council peer review college

  • Member of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain

  • Member of the International Society for the Linguistics of English

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Research, grants, consultancy and knowledge exchange