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The University of Edinburgh: Linguistics and English Language

Institution The University of Edinburgh View institution profile
Department School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Web https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying
Study type Research

Summary

We have an outstanding international reputation in many areas of Linguistics and English Language research.

Linguistics & English Language is rated 3rd in the UK by Times Higher Education for the quality and breadth of the research using the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021).

We can offer expert supervision across a wide range of topics, including:

  • Applied Linguistics

  • Developmental linguistics, including first and second language acquisition

  • Discourse and conversation analysis

  • Historical English linguistics, including the syntax, morphology, and phonology from the earliest periods to the present day

  • Language evolution

  • Linguistic fieldwork

  • Morphology, including word formation

  • Multilingualism

  • Phonetics and phonology, including diachronic phonology and the phonology of varieties of English, Scots and their history

  • Pragmatics

  • Sociolinguistics

  • Speech technology

  • Syntax and semantics, including theoretical syntax, descriptive syntax of English, diachronic syntax and both lexical and formal semantics

  • Varieties of English, both British and international

Research groups

Our expertise clusters in a number of research groups and research centres:

  • Developmental Linguistics

  • English Language

  • Language Evolution & Computation (LEC)

  • Language in Context

  • Language Variation and Change (LVC)

  • Meaning and Grammar

  • Phonetics and Phonology

  • Centre for Language Evolution

  • Bilingualism Matters

Research in speech technology is carried out at the Centre for Speech Technology Research, a collaboration between the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences and Informatics.

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await.

The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and placed 22nd in the 2024 QS World University Rankings.

Our position as one of Britain’s leading research universities was reaffirmed by the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, ranked 4th in the UK for research power (Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions), with 90% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.

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