Our research

Research in the Department of Linguistics

We carry out research and supervision across a wide range of areas of linguistics, including language acquisition and disorders of language, speech and hearing, and languages in society.

Our areas of research include:

Our partners

Our research centres, clinical groups, research labs and research collectives collaboratively foster a dynamic and interdisciplinary research and teaching environment for our staff and students.

Research centres and collectives

• Child Language Lab
• Collective for Language Sciences
• Hearing Education Application Research (HEAR)
• Multilingualism Research Collective

Graduate research

The Department of Linguistics has one of the highest concentrations of gradaute research students at Macquarie, with about 100 research students working in the department at any given time.

We make a substantial and unique contribution through extensive distance and online courses for international graduate research students. We also host global PhD program students from Asia, Europe and Africa.