Doctor in Philosophy - Centre for Language and Communication Studies

The School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences offers six taught Masters programmes and a comprehensive range of doctoral research opportunities in the study of general and applied linguistics, speech sciences, speech and language pathology, clinical linguistics, Deaf Studies and Asian Studies.

The School's Centre for Language and Communication Studies, founded in 1979, is a centre of research in linguistics, applied linguistics, phonetics and speech science, and provides teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The Centre offers four integrated taught Masters Degrees in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, English Language Teaching and Speech and Language Processing.
The Centre offers many opportunities for doctoral research. In linguistics students have conducted research on a diverse range of languages and in fields including language acquisition, computational linguistics (in collaboration with the School of Computer Science and Statistics), sociolinguistics, pragmatics, semantics, phonology, syntax, language planning, corpus linguistics, and language typology and universals. In applied linguistics doctoral supervision is available in areas such as autonomy in second/foreign language learning, multilingualism and bilingualism, language transfer, learner strategies and communicative strategies, media and technologies in language learning, metacognition and metalinguistic awareness, pragmatics and language learning, syllabus, learning materials and pedagogical grammar, the age factor in language learning, and the L2 mental lexicon.