Linguistics and English Language

Entry requirements

A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in a related subject.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Linguistics and English Language at Edinburgh is the pre-eminent department for the study of both Linguistics and English Language in the UK, having ranked top in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.

• developmental linguistics, including first and second language acquisition
• discourse Analysis
• historical English Linguistics, including the syntax, morphology, and phonology from the earliest periods to the present day
• language evolution
• linguistic fieldwork
• morphology, including word formation
• phonetics and phonology, including diachronic phonology and the phonology of varieties of English and their history
• Scots
• sociolinguistics
• speech technology
• syntax and semantics, including theoretical syntax, descriptive syntax of English, diachronic syntax and both lexical and formal semantics
• various theoretical approaches to the study of language.

• Developmental Linguistics
• English Language
• Language Evolution & Computation (LEC)
• Language in Context
• Language Variation and Change (LVC)
• Meaning & Grammar
• Phonetics & Phonology

• Centre for Speech Technology Research