Our research
Overview
We ranked second in the UK in the 2008 RAE, with two-thirds of our linguistic research judged to be world-leading or internationally excellent.
Our distinctive focus is on the integration of theoretical and empirical investigation of the formal properties, development, use and evolution of linguistic systems. Much of our work is cross-disciplinary and collaborative, involving national and international partners, and partners outside academia.
Research areas
The department engages in a wide range of research in these main areas:
- Acquisition/Psycholinguistics
- Phonological development
- Forensic speech science
- Language variation & change
- Phonetics and phonology
- Syntax and semantics
Research community
Current research
- Langelin
Langelin (Language and Gene Lineages) is an ERC-funded research project 'Meeting Darwin’s last challenge: toward a global tree of human languages and genes'
- Marie Curie FP7 Network BBfor2
Researching speaker recognition (comparison), face recognition, and fingerprint recognition, including:- Multimodal speech and speaker recognition
- Calculation of likelihood ratios using phonetic and linguistic features