Find MSc Programs in Linguistics 2019 in Scotland in United Kingdom

This programme covers all areas of speech and language processing, from phonetics, speech synthesis and speech recognition, to natural language understanding and machine translation

The flexible nature of the programme allows students to take courses ranging across other areas of linguistics, informatics, cognitive science and psychology.

The programme is co-taught by faculty from Linguistics and Informatics, both of which are the best in the UK and world leading in their fields. This programme draws on the combined expertise of these subject areas to deliver a broad range of courses, all informed by current research being conducted at Edinburgh.

On the programme, you will feel connected to these active research programmes and will be taught by leading researchers in their respective fields. The dissertation project provides an opportunity for you to directly connect with active research projects.... [-]

The MSc in Phonetics will give a comprehensive, intensive grounding in the theory and practice of phonetics

On this programme, you will learn the core phonetic topics of speech production, speech acoustics, and speech perception, and will learn how phonetics relates to many other language-related disciplines.

The programme has a strong practical emphasis. It is designed primarily for graduates wishing to continue studying phonetics at PhD level and for those wishing to use phonetics as a tool for investigation in related fields, e.g. historical linguistics, phonology, developmental linguistics, psychology, speech technology, etc.

Gain intellectual and practical skills to engage in linguistics research, either for its own sake or as part of cross-disciplinary research.

This highly flexible MSc draws on the University of Edinburgh’s unparalleled research expertise in Linguistics. Linguistics and English Language at Edinburgh has access to a wide breadth of research themes, with the greatest theoretical depth that you will find anywhere.

The breadth of research is reflected in the range of courses which are on offer in this programme. We have a number of staff with diverse interests to support the wide number of courses offered. This programme enables you to have the flexibility to pick and choose courses to suit your interest and career aims.... [-]

An opportunity to choose from a range of courses in this interdisciplinary programme

These are some of the central topics you will learn about in this taught master's programme on developmental linguistics. The programme offers knowledge and research skills in understanding how our linguistic competence changes as we acquire or lose language at various points in our lifespan.

The interdisciplinary and modular nature of the programme allows you to tailor your study to your own interests by combining a range of courses taught by world-class experts in Linguistics, Psychology and other related subject areas in Edinburgh, a university with the largest concentration of language-related researchers in the UK.... [-]

This is an intensive one-year programme in what may be termed 'socially relevant Linguistics'

In Applied Linguistics, we draw on knowledge about language, how it works and how it is used in order to contribute to real life issues.

We examine language use in a variety of social settings (e.g. language use in everyday conversation, in educational settings, in medical settings etc.). We focus on language variability (e.g. bilingualism, accents, dialects, etc.) versus social diversity (e.g. gender, class, ethnicity etc.). We also consider how knowledge about language as it is actually used in real social settings can (be made to) impact on people's lives.

You will be taught by academics currently carrying out highly regarded research in this field

These questions, which are at the heart of the recent renaissance in the scientific study of the origins and evolution of human language, will be tackled on this interdisciplinary postgraduate programme.

The Evolution of Language and Cognition programme is a unique and fascinating interdisciplinary programme which focuses on the treatment of language as a dynamic evolving system, bringing together origins, acquisition and change.... [-]