We carry out research into the cognitive processes involved in language production and comprehension across modalities. We explore how language is acquired and represented in the mind, using a range of experimental approaches in our Linguistics Research Laboratory.
Areas of research include:
- Construction Grammar
- Cognitive Linguistics and cognitive variables
- Embodied cognition and metaphor
- First and second language acquisition
- Formulaic language and lexical patterns
- Individual differences in language processing
- Language and the brain / clinical linguistics
- Memory and attention
- Sensory language
![Dr Gareth Carrol](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/elal/carrol-gareth.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Senior Lecturer in Psycholinguistics
![Professor Dagmar Divjak](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/languages/divjak-dagmar-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Professorial Research Fellow in Cognitive Linguistics and Language Cognition
![Professor Jeannette Littlemore](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/elal/littlemore-jeannette-315.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics
![Dr Amanda Patten](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/elal/patten-amanda-square-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Associate Professor in Historical Linguistics
Head of Education for the School of EDACS
![Dr Florent Perek](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/elal/perek-florent-315-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Associate Professor in Cognitive Linguistics
Deputy Director of the Centre for Corpus Research
![Dr Marcus Perlman](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/elal/perlman-marcus-230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics
Acting Director of PGR for ELAL
![Dr Bodo Winter](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/elal/winter-bodo-315-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Associate Professor in Cognitive Linguistics