About This Course

Linguistics as a subject has been taught at Bangor University since the 1960s, making our department one of the first linguistics departments in the UK. We are a vibrant, accessible, friendly department with staff committed to providing an excellent doctoral student experience and strong academic support for the duration of your studies.

Our academic staff provides expertise and PhD dissertation supervision in wide range of disciplines within Linguistics. 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

discourse analysis (including CDA, Multimodal and Cognitive Discourse Analysis (CoDA)

TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)

SLA and language teaching

corpus linguistics

language and communication

historical linguistics

language variation, use and change

contested languages

temporal language and the nature of figurative language

language technologies / natural language processing (NLP)

Welsh linguistics

Students on our Linguistics PhD programme have access to state-of-the-art learning facilities which include:

A professional grade sound / recording studio and speech laboratory (with Yamaha, Alesis and RØDE recording equipment)

An eye tracking laboratory (with a Tobii Pro X2-60 eye tracker)

An event-related potential (ERP) laboratory (with an actiCHamp Plus ERP machine)

And dedicated corpus-linguistics software and resources.