DPhil in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics

Features

• The emphasis in the DPhil is on self-directed learning, with guidance from the supervisor and other faculty.
• You are expected to submit your thesis three, or at most four, years from the date of admission (six, or at most eight, years for part-time students).

Programme Structure

Research

• linguistic theory (morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and their interfaces)
• Indo-European comparative philology (especially Greek, Italic/Latin, Indo-Iranian, Anatolian, Celtic, Slavic and Tocharian)
• phonetics and phonology (especially phonetics/phonology interface, speech perception, language comprehension)
• Romance philology (Research Centre on Romance Linguistics, especially diachronic morphology, syntax of Italo-Romance and phonetics of French)
• neurolinguistics/psycholinguistics
• ancient grammatical thought in the Greco-Roman tradition.

Admission requirements

Academic requirements

GPA: Upper Second Class

English requirements

TOEFL iBT: 110

IELTS: 7

General requirements

As a minimum, applicants should hold or be predicted to achieve the following UK qualifications or their equivalent:

• a master's degree in a relevant subject with a very good result or a result close to distinction level; and
• a first-class or strong upper second-class undergraduate degree with honours in a relevant subject.

Tuition Fees

• International: 70,377 AUD / year (≈ 37,080 GBP / year)
• Domestic: 26,913 AUD / year (≈ 14,180 GBP / year)

Living costs

Oxford, United Kingdom: 1,782-2,904 AUD / month