Phonetics lab

Linguistics and English Language

Scroll to content

Study

Research

  • Our Research

    For the last forty years, we have been known for cutting-edge empirically-based theoretical and applied research in a wide range of research areas. We constantly strive to make links with potential users of our work.

  • Research Centres and Groups

    The department hosts active research groups in areas such as cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, language and gender, literacy, pragmatics and stylistics, and second language learning, assessment and teaching.

  • Research Facilities

    The Department has some outstanding resources. We have fully equipped laboratories for eye-tracking, phonetics, EEG (Electroencephalography) and child language analysis.

Latest News

View of Lancaster towards the Ashton Memorial from the Castle

Northern dialects are holding their own, study shows

Southern dialects may be spreading across the UK, but the North is pushing back in some areas, new research by Lancaster University has shown.
Claire Nance using ultrasound equipment to carry out the analysis

Gaelic ultrasound videos shed new light on mechanics of tongue movements during speech

The first publicly available ultrasound recordings of Gaelic give a previously unseen perspective on tongue shapes used while speaking the language.
Girls Night film advert

Short film selected to appear at three film festivals

LAEL second year undergraduate Lorna Brierly has written and directed a short film as part of her studies, which has been selected to appear at three film festivals.
A shiny red plastic heart and a stethoscope

New study urges change of heart in discussions on heart failure

When it comes to Parliamentary debates, heart failure is lower on the agenda than pot-holes in pavements and roads and has a lower public profile compared with other serious health conditions such as cancer and dementia, new research by Lancaster University has shown.

 
Lake district walk PG students 2022

Lake District walk

The department continued its longstanding tradition of taking PG students on a hike in the nearby Lake District or Yorkshire Dales. This year, we visited the Lake District and walked from Ambleside to Grasmere via Loughrigg Terrace.

More News

Upcoming Events

31st Aug

Study at Postgraduate Masters Level in the Department of Linguistics and English Language - 31 August, 11am-12pm & 6pm-7pm GMT (UK time)

Wednesday 31 August 2022, 11:00am to 12:00pm
15th Sep

HL2C-SLLAT Seminar: Cristina Flores (Minho), Esther Rinke, Jacopo Torregrossa (Frankfurt)

Thursday 15 September 2022, 5:00pm to 6:00pm
12th Oct

HL2C-SLLAT Seminar: Monika Schmid (York)

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

More Events

Keep in Touch