Linguistics

About This Course

Bangor University’s Masters in Linguistics course is for students with an undergraduate degree in any subject who want a qualification in linguistics. Students who have a BA in Linguistics may be exempt from compulsory modules which they have already covered as part of their first degree, or may prefer to follow one of the other MA courses offered by the School.

We are an accessible, friendly Department whose staff who are passionate about passing on their expertise and subject knowledge and committed to delivering the highest quality learning experience for our students. Our research informs our teaching provision at all levels, with our students benefitting from enthusiastic staff at the cutting-edge of academic enquiry and developments. Our staff is committed to providing an excellent student experience with strong personalised student support throughout the duration of your MA in Linguistics studies.

Following taught components, students on this degree will complete an independent research-based Masters level dissertation project. The staff in our Department provide excellent personalised supervision and academic support for dissertations on wide range of language acquisition and development topics using applied, theoretical, experimental, corpus-based or ethnographic methodological frameworks. These include, but are not limited to:

• Psycholinguistics
• Child language acquisition
• 2nd language acquisition
• Discourse analysis
• TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)
• SLA and language teaching
• Corpus linguistics
• Language and communication
• Phonetics & phonology
• Morphosyntax
• Semantics and pragmatics
• Historical linguistics
• Language variation and change
• Language and communication
• Bilingualism and multilingualism
• Language disorders
• Cognitive Discourse Analysis (CoDA)
• Welsh linguistics and language technologies / natural language processing (NLP)