Experimental Linguistics at LUCL provides a comprehensive, empirically grounded view of language as a cognitive, social and biological system.

The group’s work clusters around three closely connected domains:

• Child language acquisition - How infants and children acquire sounds, words, grammar and meaning, and how developing brains support language learning.
• Psycholinguistics - How adults comprehend and produce spoken and signed language in real time, including sentence processing, prosody, multilingualism and meaning.
• Neurolinguistics - How language is implemented in the brain, using methods such as EEG, fNIRS and eye‑tracking to study neural and cognitive mechanisms of language.

Across all three domains, Experimental Linguistics at LUCL is characterised by:

• Acoustic and auditory phonetics (especially cross‑linguistically)
• Multilingualism and language diversity
• Experimental methodology and open science
• Replication and robustness of findings
• Computational and formal modelling

Please consult the project pages and the profile pages of the academic staff for more detailed information.