Dr. Thorsten Brato

Please consider the following before you come to see me in the office hour:

• What exactly is your matter or concern? What your most central questions? Which results do wish for?
• What information have you already gathered? What would you like to ask and/or clarify?
• What have you already done to work on your task, to solve your problem independently (first literature research, structure of the term paper/presentation, etc.)?
• What are your expectations of me as a teacher?
• If you want to discuss a term paper or final thesis, please bring along an outline?- or even better send it to me beforehand.

Research Interests

• Structural nativization in Ghanaian English
• Phonological Acquisition of English as a Second Language in Cameroon
• Diachronic World Englishes
• English in (West)?Africa
• Sociophonetics
• Corpus linguistics
• Scottish English
• Language Variation and Change
• Sociolinguistics