Research areas

Theoretical and experimental research on linguistic development; Edinburgh Laboratory for Language Development; Bilingualism Matters

Linguistic theory, historical linguistics and language variation as applied to the English language

Our aim is to understand the origins and evolution of language.

Studying how the social, interpersonal, and discursive context of language shapes its forms and uses

Exploring linguistic variation and change, with a particular focus on quantitative models

Syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology and their interfaces

Phonetics and Phonology Research Group