Our research
York's focus is on the integration of theoretical and empirical investigation of the formal properties, development, use and acquisition of linguistic systems. Our work aims to be cross-disciplinary and collaborative, involving national and international partners.
Research areas
- Acquisition/Psycholinguistics
- Forensic speech science
- Language variation & change
- Phonetics & phonology
- Syntax & semantics
Research community
Current projects
- Accent Bias and Fair Access in Britain (ABFAB)
- Anatomy, Acoustics, and the Individual: Investigating Inter-Speaker Vocal Tract Variation for Forensic Speaker Comparison
- Enhancing the Quality of Psychological Interventions Delivered by Telephone (EQUITy)
- ‘Geordie’? ‘Mackem’? ‘Smoggie’?: Dialect Differences in the North East of England (GMS)
- Matches and Mismatches in Nominal Morphology and Agreement: Learning from the Acquisition of Eegimaa
- Pluralised Mass Nouns as a Window to Linguistic Variation
- The Use and Utility of Localised Speech Forms in Determining Identity: Forensic and Sociophonetic Perspectives (TUULS)
- Voice and Identity: Source, Filter, Biometric
- York BabyLab Studies