爱丁堡的语言学和英语语言系是英国语言学和英语语言研究的杰出部门，在2008年研究评估活动中名列前茅。我们在语言学和英语语言研究的许多领域都享有很高的国际声誉。我们可以提供广泛主题的专家指导，包括：发展语言学，包括第一语言和第二语言习得，语篇分析，历史英语语言学，包括从最早到今天的语法，词法和音系。<br>语言进化，语言田野调查，形态学（包括单词形成），语音和语音学，包括历时语音学和各种英语及其历史的语音学，苏格兰语，社会语言学，语音技术，语法和语义，包括理论语法，英语的描述性语法，历时语法以及词汇语义和形
We have an outstanding international reputation in many areas of Linguistics and English Language research. Linguistics & English Language is rated 3rd in the UK by Times Higher Education for the quality and breadth of the research using the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021). We can offer expert supervision across a wide range of topics, including: Applied Linguistics Developmental linguistics, including first and second language acquisition Discourse and conversation analysis Historical English linguistics, including the syntax, morphology, and phonology from the earliest periods to the present day Language evolution Linguistic fieldwork Morphology, including word formation Multilingualism Phonetics and phonology, including diachronic phonology and the phonology of varieties of English, Scots and their history Pragmatics Sociolinguistics Speech technology Syntax and semantics, including theoretical syntax, descriptive syntax of English, diachronic syntax and both lexical and formal semantics Varieties of English, both British and international Research groups Our expertise clusters in a number of research groups and research centres: Developmental Linguistics English Language Language Evolution & Computation (LEC) Language in Context Language Variation and Change (LVC) Meaning and Grammar Phonetics and Phonology Centre for Language Evolution Bilingualism Matters Research in speech technology is carried out at the Centre for Speech Technology Research, a collaboration between the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences and Informatics: Centre for Speech Technology Research