About This Course

Bangor’s PhD in Bilingualism programme provides the opportunity, support and skills development for students to undertake doctoral level independent research into issues and aspects relating to language, education, and cognition in the fields of bilingualism and multilingualism.

Our academic staff provides expertise and PhD dissertation supervision in wide range of disciplines within the fields of bilingualism and multilingualism. This includes (but is not limited to) projects using qualitative, quantitative, experimental or ethnographic methodologies within following areas:

phonetics and phonology

morphosyntax

semantics and pragmatics

sociolinguistics

psycholinguistics

child language acquisition

1st and 2nd language acquisition

language development

language disorders

corpus linguistics

language and communication

language variation, use and change

contested languages

temporal language and the nature of figurative language

language technologies / natural language processing (NLP)

Welsh linguistics.