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Welcome to the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics!
Phonetics at University College London reaches back to 1866, when Alexander Melville Bell gave lectures on speech; he was assisted by his son Alexander Graham Bell, then a student at the College, and later to find fame as the inventor of the telephone.
The department is pre-eminent in the United Kingdom and the world, offering undergraduate and graduate courses across the full range of the language sciences. The department has been highly rated for the quality of its teaching in the last official assessment, and has also been awarded the top rating for research quality in the most recent (2001) official survey of British universities. Apart from our breadth of coverage we are particularly distinguished in four areas:
- theoretical linguistics, especially the study of syntax
- cognitive pragmatics, developed within the relevance-theoretic framework
- experimental phonetics, particularly speech perception, speech technology, speech and language pathology, and speech and hearing science
- articulatory phonetics, especially the study and description of English pronunciation.
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