Option Courses
As part of an MSc by Research, students can take a small number of taught courses. The list of options available each year will typically include most of the following (although we cannot guarantee that all of these will be available every year):
- Advanced Topics in Phonetics: Speech Production and Perception
- Advanced topics in Phonology: English phonology and phonological theory
- Advanced Topics in Semantics
- Advanced Topics in Syntax
- Corpus Linguistics
- Global Englishes
- English Grammar: a Cognitive approach
- English Historical Syntax
- English Word-Formation
- Historical Phonology
- Lexical Semantics
- Northern Englishes
- Middle English
- Optimality Theory
- Pragmatics
- Reading Old English
- Scots: History and Structure
- Simulating Language
- Statistics and Experimental Design