About

Linguistics and Phonetics at Leeds

Linguistics and Phonetics in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures offers research and teaching expertise in major areas within modern language studies and speech science, with particular strengths in language aquisition, syntax, discourse analysis and phonetics.

Academic staff are active researchers in their specialist fields and were included in the national Research Assessment Exercise in 2008, which judged 80% of our output to be internationally recognised for its originality and rigour. With a student satisfaction rating of 92% in the latest National Student Survey, the indicators show that the Department is academically successful and an excellent learning environment.

We offer state-of-the-art facilities for teaching and research, including a recording studio, a phonetics laboratory for acoustic and articulatory analysis of speech, and a linguistics laboratory with eye-tracking apparatus, among other things. We also offer a comfortable space for students and staff to meet and collaborate.

We work closely with specialists in language studies from other departments, including the Centre for Translation Studies, the School of English, the School of Education and the Institute of Psychological Sciences. Many of these collaborations feed into our undergraduate and MA programmes, providing our students with a wide range of options for specialisation as well as a broad understanding of how human language is structured and acquired, produced and transmitted, and used in various modes of communication.