Welcome to the Language and Linguistic Science Department

Welcome to the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at York.

We hope that you will enjoy your stay as a postgraduate student and benefit from both the academic and social life in the Department, as well as the University in general. Our Department is one of the UK’s major hubs for teaching in all areas of linguistics and the UK's number 1 Department for research in linguistics according to REF 2021. Staff in the Department teach and research widely into language as a cognitive and social phenomenon, including its nature, structure, use, acquisition by children and adults and its implementation and processing by the brain. We hope that during your time at York you will take full advantage of the competences, training and ideas that you can find in the Department. We hope that this will be as exciting a time for you as your arrival is for us.

This handbook describes our research postgraduate programmes and is designed as a guide to your studies within the Department, and as an introduction to the administrative and academic procedures. You may be given additional information by your Supervisor. Note that during your period of registration, there may be some changes in procedures or otherwise which will supersede what is in this handbook. You will be informed of these changes should they occur and the version of the handbook which is available from the Department's website will be updated. When in doubt, always refer to the handbook on the website.