The chair of English linguistics covers topics including

• phonetics and phonology of English
• the development and structure of the world-wide varieties of English
• second and third language acquisition
• sociolinguistics
• Nigerian English
• corpus linguistics, especially phonological corpora

We have compiled the corpora ICE Nigeria and ICE Scotland and have set up a phonetics laboratory at the University of Münster. Current projects include the DFG-funded research project on phonological acquisition of multilingual speakers and the DFG-funded project on Scottish English.

We are currently creating the Language Learning Aptitude Test GLLAD.