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Research Opportunities & Collaboration

Topics on which we welcome expressions of interest from students and researchers. A listing is not an offer of funding, a scholarship, employment or guaranteed supervision.

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Undergraduate students

Experimental studies of English sentence processing

Expressions of interest welcome

For: Undergraduate students

Projects may use acceptability judgment, self-paced reading, or controlled production tasks to investigate how Vietnamese learners process English sentence structure.

Topics are examples of possible directions; not every topic is available at any given time. Scope is adapted to an undergraduate project.

Funding/appointment: not implied

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Vietnamese-English syntactic dependencies

Expressions of interest welcome

For: Undergraduate students

Possible topics include relative clauses, long-distance dependencies, syntactic islands, tough-constructions, pronouns, and resumptive-pronoun strategies.

Topics are examples of possible directions; not every topic is available at any given time. Scope is adapted to an undergraduate project.

Funding/appointment: not implied

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Master's students

Working memory and second-language sentence processing

Expressions of interest welcome

For: Master's students

Projects examine whether working-memory capacity, language proficiency, and experience explain individual differences in English sentence comprehension by Vietnamese learners.

Funding/appointment: not implied

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Complex syntax across judgment, processing, and production

Expressions of interest welcome

For: Master's students

Projects may combine acceptability judgment, online processing, and controlled production to investigate complex syntactic dependencies.

Funding/appointment: not implied

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Garden-path and reduced-relative processing

Expressions of interest welcome

For: Master's students

Expressions of interest are welcome for experimental work on temporary ambiguity and reduced-relative processing among Vietnamese learners of English.

Potential direction — the final scope requires approval; this is not an already approved thesis topic.

Funding/appointment: not implied

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Research assistants / short-term student collaboration

Vietnamese spoken filler corpus

Expressions of interest welcome

For: Research assistants / short-term student collaboration

Research assistants may support time-aligned annotation, contextual coding, quality control, and documentation for a corpus of Vietnamese fillers in spontaneous speech.

Funding/appointment: not implied

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Experimental materials and data quality

Expressions of interest welcome

For: Research assistants / short-term student collaboration

Students may assist with stimulus preparation, pilot testing, coding, data-quality checks, reproducible documentation, and verification of web-based experiments.

Funding/appointment: not implied

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Researchers and lecturers

Experimental syntax and bilingual sentence processing

Expressions of interest welcome

For: Researchers and lecturers

We welcome collaboration on cross-linguistic and second-language studies using judgment, self-paced reading, listening, and production methods.

Funding/appointment: not implied

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Vietnamese spoken discourse and fluency

Expressions of interest welcome

For: Researchers and lecturers

Potential collaborations include fillers, fluency perception, speech production, corpus annotation, and cross-speaker or cross-variety comparisons.

Funding/appointment: not implied

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Shared datasets and methodology

Expressions of interest welcome

For: Researchers and lecturers

We welcome carefully governed collaboration on research protocols, stimulus design, reproducible analysis, shared datasets, and multi-site data collection.

Funding/appointment: not implied

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