该系是英国领先的语言学研究部门之一（在最近两次国家评估中名列前茅，REF 2014和RAE 2008）。该系的研究涵盖语言结构及其在语音社区和不同社会环境中的使用。<br>我们有生动活泼的研讨会，阅读小组，博士培训讲习班和特邀讲座。研究生还将从本系自己的研究培训班和高级语言学核心培训中接受研究方法和语言学特定领域的高级培训。该系还与学校的其他语言学密切合作，他们对法语，德语和西班牙裔语言特别感兴趣。
The Department is one of the leading Linguistics research departments in the UK (top-ranked in the last two national assessment exercises, REF 2014 and RAE 2008). The Department's research encompasses both the structure of language and its use within speech communities and different social contexts. <br><br>We have a lively programme of seminars, reading groups, PhD training workshops, and invited guest lectures. Graduate students also receive advanced training in research methodology and specific areas of linguistics from the department's own research training workshops and from advanced core training in linguistics. The Department also works closely with other linguistics in the School, who have specific interests in French, German and Hispanic languages.<br><br>Students have access to the major academic libraries and resources in London, in addition to our own study facilities. The Department has a purpose-built suite of linguistics laboratories and recording studio. The laboratory is fully stocked with state-of-the-art recording and transcribing equipment, a comprehensive range of public corpora and software for analysing language and dedicated workstations for graduate students and research fellows.