Linguistics

Listed below are the projects associated with the Linguistics research group that secured external funding. For information on other projects, please see individual staff pages or the research pages for each individual language.

Staff in the Linguistics research group have directly contributed to social policy. For example, Dr Aidan Coveney's support and advice helped secure funding from the Mayor of Paris for a project on contemporary Parisian French, and Dr Francesco Goglia advised regional Italian government bodies on interactions with immigrant communities.

Related to education, Dr Zoë Boughton’s work on pronunciation differences in French has informed teacher-training resources in the UK, and Dr Aidan Coveney’s research into linguistic variation has informed language textbooks used across secondary schools and the higher education sector.

As part of Dr Susana Afonso and Dr Francesco Goglia's project Patterns of multilingualism among different generations of the East Timorese diasporic community in Portugal, a corpus of spoken Portuguese by the different generations of the East Timorese immigrant community was collected and can be freely accessed via Linguateca, a distributed language resource centre for Portuguese which provides resources that enable sophisticated processing of Portuguese. The corpus may therefore be used by the Linguistic community for research.