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Dr Alimujiang Tusun is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He holds a BA in English from Northwest Minzu University, an MA in English and Applied Linguistics from Beijing Foreign Studies University, and an MPhil (with distinction) and PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on bilingualism, language acquisition in children, and structural diversity in Turkic languages such as Uyghur and Mandarin. He has contributed to projects like the AHRC-funded 'MEITS' initiative, examining factors influencing multilingualism. Dr Tusun has taught undergraduate courses on Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics at Cambridge and lectures on Second Language Acquisition at Anglia Ruskin University.
His research interests include the cognitive representation of experiential domains (space, causality, change of state) across languages and their implications for language acquisition. He is currently preparing a monograph on Turkic syntax. Dr Tusun’s work has been published in journals such as Lingua, Linguistics, Frontiers in Psychology, and Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
He is affiliated with the Section of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and collaborates on interdisciplinary projects exploring language, cognition, and multilingualism. His research bridges linguistic theory, empirical studies, and applied contexts, with a focus on under-represented Turkic languages.
