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These topics are suggested by DELG staff. They only serve as an appetizer. You may come up with any other topic and convince a member of DELG to supervise you and that topic.

• Palatalization in English: how many times and when?
• Rules and lexicalization: when and how does a rule die?
• Lexical and postlexical rules in English
• Treatment of a historical rule in English: e.g., the influence of /l/ on the preceding vowel (all vs. ally)
• How did breaking and broadening happen in English?
• Analysing an older piece of text linguistically (e.g., Chaucer’s poetry)
• Has coda /l/ always been ‘dark’ in English?

• Phonotactic constraints of English
• L-vocalization and its effects on the vowel system of English
• How many degrees of stress are there in English?
• The sound system of Hunglish