PhD in Language Sciences
Faro, Portugal
PhD
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 3,000 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* 1st phase: 23/02 to 27/03 2nd phase: 25/05 to 03/07 3rd phase: 12/08 to 28/08
** for International students| National students: EUR 1500 per year
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Key Summary
About: The PhD in Language Sciences at The University of Algarve enables students to deepen and extend theoretical and methodological expertise in language sciences and to acquire advanced research skills for scientific practice. It trains students to promote technological, social, or cultural progress in a knowledge-based society. Main research lines are linguistic diversity, terminology and science communication; lexical-syntactic description for computational language processing; and formal representation of natural language meaning from a transformational perspective. Teaching languages are Portuguese, English, or French, adapted to students' linguistic profiles.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue linguistic consultancy, translation, natural language processing (NLP), editing, teaching, and healthcare intervention.
Objectives
- To enable students to deepen and extend their theoretical and methodological expertise in the scientific domain of Language Sciences
- To provide students with advanced research skills, viewing them as potential practitioners of scientific work in the area of Language Sciences
- To exercise students in the ability to promote technological, social or cultural progress in a knowledge-based society
- Main research lines: 1. linguistic diversity, terminology, and communication of science; 2. description of lexical-syntactic structures for computational language processing; 3. formal representation of the meaning of natural language texts from a transformational perspective.
Operating Mode
The teaching languages will be Portuguese, English, or French (adapted to the linguistic profile of the students).
Year 1
- Research Methods in Language Sciences
- Advanced Research in Language Sciences 1
- Language Sciences Theory
- Advanced Research in Language Sciences 2
- Thesis Project
Year 2
- Thesis Supervision Seminar
Year 3
- Doctoral Thesis
- Linguistic consultancy in public or private, national and EU institutions
- Text editing, e.g. for print and digital publishing
- Translation services
- Natural language processing (speech recognition and synthesis, lexicons and computer grammar, labelling, intelligent search systems and other computer applications)
- Teaching (e.g. development of materials in different formats for language teaching)
- Healthcare intervention, in collaboration with healthcare professionals involved in the diagnosis and treatment of language disorders