Program Overview

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Overview

Newcastle University is one of the largest centres for linguistic research in Europe. This gives you the unique opportunity to learn a wide range of methodologies as part of our Linguistics or Applied Linguistics course. You will be exposed to diverse theoretical perspectives, which will enrich your own research.

Linguistics and Applied Linguistics are split across three Schools:

School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences

School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics

School of Modern Languages

Our supervisors' current research interests, projects and publications are available from our staff profiles in each of these Schools.

We offer supervision in the following areas:

Linguistic theory

phonetics and phonology

(morpho)syntax

pragmatics

the lexicon

cross-linguistic variation

the architecture of the language faculty

language's place in human cognition

the philosophy of linguistics

Language variation and change

dialectology

(variationist) sociolinguistics

the sociology of language

English historical linguistics

corpus creation (e.g. the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English)

Language evolution, acquisition, and development

typical and atypical child (L1) and adult (L2) language acquisition

cognitive science

information theory

psycholinguistics

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Research centres and institutes

Our links with research centres and institutes provide opportunities for collaboration and cross-disciplinary seminars and interest groups. Our most important connections are with:

Centre for Research in Learning and Teaching

Centre for Behaviour and Evolution

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