Doctor in Philosophy - Centre for Language and Communication Studies in Dublin 2 Ireland | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

The School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences provides six specialized Master's programs along with extensive doctoral research options covering general and applied linguistics, speech sciences, speech-language pathology, clinical linguistics, Deaf Studies, and Asian Studies.

Established in 1979, the School's Centre for Language and Communication Studies serves as a hub for research in linguistics, applied linguistics, phonetics, and speech science, delivering both undergraduate and postgraduate education. The Centre features four interdisciplinary Master's Degrees in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, English Language Teaching, and Speech and Language Processing.
Doctoral candidates at the Centre can pursue diverse research paths. Linguistics scholars investigate various languages across domains like language acquisition, computational linguistics (jointly with the School of Computer Science and Statistics), sociolinguistics, pragmatics, semantics, phonology, syntax, language planning, corpus linguistics, and language typology. Applied linguistics supervision spans topics including self-directed language learning, multilingualism, language transfer, learner strategies, digital tools in language education, metacognition, pragmatics in language acquisition, curriculum design, age-related factors in learning, and second language vocabulary development.