Sydney Centre for Language Research
Promoting language research excellence
We consolidate the language research community at Sydney, creating opportunities for new collaborations while pursuing increased research funding, improved quality of research outcomes, and enhanced research engagement and impact.
We've been carrying out research on language for many decades.
Currently, more than 70 University of Sydney researchers are publishing in the Linguistics FoR code (2004), and/or are trained in a field of linguistics and are active in research on language in some capacity, in linguistics, languages, philosophy of language, anthropology of language, media and communications, music, psychology, speech pathology, health communication, information and data science.
For information on our upcoming events and grant submission rounds, please click here.
Fields of research
- Arts and Social Sciences (in linguistics, language/culture departments, philosophy, anthropology, media and communications)
- Conservatorium of Music (language and song, especially in Indigenous Australia)
- Psychology (language and cognition, language processing)
- Health Sciences (in speech pathology, health communication, the Brain and Mind Centre),
- Information/data science (Centre for Translational Data Science, Sydney Informatics Hub, School of Information Technologies, School of Mathematics and Statistics)
There are also language researchers embedded in diverse parts of the university, including the offices of the DVC Research.
Research nodes
We have ten research nodes, which reflect current research strengths.
Our people
Director
- Professor Nick Enfield
Node Coordinators
- Joanne Arciuli (Language, Brain, and Mind)
- Yaegan Doran (Language in Education)
- Nick Enfield (Sydney University Grammar Lab)
- Alex Garcia (Language, Identity and Culture )
- Gwendolyn Hyslop (Language and Prehistory )
- James Martin (Systemic Functional Linguistics)
- Joel Nothman (Computational Approaches to Language)
- Mark Post (Languages of Asia)
- Nick Riemer (History and Philosophy of Linguistics )
- Jaky Troy, (Indigenous Languages Research)
Currently, more than 70 researchers are publishing in the Linguistics FoR code (2004), and/or are trained in a field of linguistics and are active in research on language in some capacity. Click here for a full list of our members.
