Linguistics

Lab for Applied Language Science

The University’s Lab for Applied Language Science (LALS) is open for anybody who is interested in language development and language use. We aim to offer opportunities for novel interdisciplinary collaborations among linguists, language teachers, psychologists, speech pathologists, educational tool developers, engineers, etc. and to provide trainings for researchers and students who wish to develop skills in experimental approaches to language science.

Associate Professor Kiwako Ito directs the lab.

Higher Degrees by Research (HDR)

Our linguistics staff supervise a range of research thesis topics for Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in their specialist areas of expertise. We encourage students to discuss criteria and topics with their potential supervisors well in advance of their application.

Learn more about thesis guidelines

Research topics

PhD and Masters by Research proposals are invited in the following areas:

  • Language documentation and description
  • Australian and Pacific descriptive language projects
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Bilingualism
  • Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Linguistics people

Assoc Prof Kiwako Ito

Assoc Prof Kiwako Ito

Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Linguistics

Expertise: eye tracking for studying language processing; language acquisition; psycholinguistics; speech signal processing

Dr Catriona Malau

Dr Catriona Malau

Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Linguistics

Expertise: Language description and documentation; Oceanic languages of the Pacific, focussing on Vanuatu

Professor Bill Palmer Professor Bill Palmer

Professor Bill Palmer

Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Linguistics

Expertise: language description and documentation; Oceanic languages of Pacific, focussing on Bougainville and Solomon Islands; syntax