Bilingualism

Bangor’s PhD in Bilingualism programme provides the opportunity, support and skills development for students to undertake doctoral level independent research into issues and aspects relating to language, education, and cognition in the fields of bilingualism and multilingualism. Our academic staff provides expertise and PhD dissertation supervision in wide range of disciplines within the fields of bilingualism and multilingualism. This includes (but is not limited to) projects using qualitative, quantitative, experimental or ethnographic methodologies within following areas: phonetics and phonology morphosyntax semantics and pragmatics sociolinguistics psycholinguistics child language acquisition 1st and 2nd language acquisition language development language disorders corpus linguistics language and communication language variation, use and change contested languages temporal language and the nature of figurative language language technologies / natural language processing (NLP) Welsh linguistics Students on our Bilingualism PhD programme 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. Programme Length PhD: 3 years full-time; 5 years part-time; MPhil: 2 years full-time; 3 years part-time.