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Students
Tuition Fee
USD 25,080
Per year
Start Date
Medium of studying
On campus
Duration
12 months
Program Facts
Program Details
Degree
PhD
Major
Linguistics | Language Acquisition
Area of study
Langauges
Education type
On campus
Timing
Full time
Course Language
English
Tuition Fee
Average International Tuition Fee
USD 25,080
Intakes
Program start dateApplication deadline
2023-09-01-
About Program

Program Overview


Overview

Newcastle University is one of the largest centres for linguistic research in Europe. This gives you the unique opportunity to learn a wide range of methodologies as part of our Linguistics or Applied Linguistics course. You will be exposed to diverse theoretical perspectives, which will enrich your own research.

Linguistics and Applied Linguistics are split across three Schools:

  • School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
  • School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
  • School of Modern Languages
  • Our supervisors' current research interests, projects and publications are available from our staff profiles in each of these Schools.

    We offer supervision in the following areas:

    Linguistic theory

  • phonetics and phonology
  • (morpho)syntax
  • pragmatics
  • the lexicon
  • cross-linguistic variation
  • the architecture of the language faculty
  • language's place in human cognition
  • the philosophy of linguistics
  • Language variation and change

  • dialectology
  • (variationist) sociolinguistics
  • the sociology of language
  • English historical linguistics
  • corpus creation (e.g. the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English)
  • Language evolution, acquisition, and development

  • typical and atypical child (L1) and adult (L2) language acquisition
  • cognitive science
  • information theory
  • psycholinguistics




  • Research centres and institutes

    Our links with research centres and institutes provide opportunities for collaboration and cross-disciplinary seminars and interest groups. Our most important connections are with:

  • Centre for Research in Learning and Teaching
  • Centre for Behaviour and Evolution
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    View our Academic experience page, which gives information about your Newcastle University study experience for the academic year 2022-23.

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    Program Outline

    Your development


    Research groups

    Our research groups also facilitate researchers with common interests to share ideas, develop new skills and gain feedback on their work. The groups meet regularly and include:

  • Language & Cognition Research Group
  • Sociolinguistics Discussion Group
  • Romance Linguistics Circle
  • North East Syntax Seminar
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research Group
  • In addition to these formal groups, there are a number of informal research clubs that meet on an ad hoc basis.


    Newcastle seminar series in linguistics

    Throughout each semester we host a regular seminar series where internationally renowned linguistic researchers give presentations on their recent research.


    Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) researcher development programme

    Each faculty offers a researcher development programme for its postgraduate research students. We have designed your programme to help you:

  • perform better as a researcher
  • boost your career prospects
  • broaden your impact
  • Through workshops and activities, it will build your transferable skills and increase your confidence.

    You’ll cover:

  • techniques for effective research
  • methods for better collaborative working
  • essential professional standards and requirements
  • Your researcher development programme is flexible. You can adapt it to meet your changing needs as you progress through your doctorate.

    Find out more about the Researcher Education and Development programme


    Doctoral training and partnerships

    There are opportunities to undertake your PhD at Newcastle within a:

  • Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT)
  • Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)
  • Being part of a CDT or DTP has many benefits:

  • they combine research expertise and training of a number of leading universities, academic schools and academics.
  • you’ll study alongside a cohort of other PhD students
  • they’re often interdisciplinary
  • your PhD may be funded
  • Find out more about doctoral training and partnerships

    If there are currently opportunities available in your subject area you’ll find them when you search for funding in the fees and funding section on this course.

    The following centres/partnerships below may have PhD opportunities available in your subject area in the future:

  • ESRC Northern Ireland/North East (NINE) Doctoral Training Partnership
  • Northern Bridge Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership
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