Overview
We are a vibrant, accessible, friendly department with staff committed to providing an excellent doctoral student experience and strong academic support for the duration of your studies.
Our academic staff provides expertise and PhD dissertation supervision in wide range of disciplines within Linguistics . This includes (but is not limited to) projects using qualitative, quantitative, experimental or ethnographic methodologies.
Students on our Linguistics PhD programme at Bangor University have access to state-of-the-art learning facilities which include:
- A professional grade sound / recording studio and speech laboratory (with Yamaha, Alesis and RØDE recording equipment)
- An eye tracking laboratory (with a Tobii Pro X2-60 eye tracker)
- An event-related potential (ERP) laboratory (with an actiCHamp Plus ERP machine)
- And dedicated corpus-linguistics software and resources.
Our staff also have expertise in and provide support for the following:
- Statistical software such as: SPSS, R-Statistics and Excel.
- Experimental psychology software such as E-Prime, GORILLA Experiment Builder, Open Sesame and Webexp.
- Acoustic and phonetic analysis software such as: Audacity, Praat, and SIL Speech Analyzer
- Standardised psychometric /language tests (e.g., EVT, BPVS, NARA, WISC, K-BIT, TROG, CELF)
- A wide range of specialized corpora and concordance software including CHILDES and CLAN
At Bangor you will be part of a vibrant, innovative research community which is supported through various events throughout the year, ranging from individual talks to informal seminars and workshops to large conferences. Many of these are open not just to academic staff, but also to students and to the general public.
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Research Areas:
- phonetics and phonology
- morphosyntax
- semantics and pragmatics
- sociolinguistics
- psycholinguistics
- child language acquisition
- 1st and 2nd language acquisition
- language development
- language disorders
- discourse analysis (including CDA, Multimodal and Cognitive Discourse Analysis (CoDA)
- TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)
- SLA and language teaching
- corpus linguistics
- language and communication
- historical linguistics
- language variation, use and change
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Duration
- Full-time
- 24 months
- Part-time
- 36 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- It is possible to start a PhD degree at any point in the year at most academic Schools, subject to agreement with the supervisor.
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Visit programme websiteAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Student insurance
Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:
- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
It is possible to join the PhD programme after successfully completing a Masters in Linguistics or related subject at Bangor or elsewhere. Applicants who do not speak English as their native language must pass the IELTS English test with a score of 6.0 in all four components. Students who have an overall score of 5.5 on the IELTS can take a summer pre-sessional course in the University’s English Language Centre for Overseas Students (ELCOS).
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International
18500 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 18500 GBP per year during 24 months. -
National
4860 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4860 GBP per year during 24 months.
- Part-time Postgraduate Research tuition fee is 50% of the full-time Postgraduate Research tuition fee per annum
Living costs for Bangor
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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Scholarships Information
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