Our facilities

The Oastler building is the home of the School of Music, Humanities and Media.

What can you find in the building?

• Collaborative Learning rooms. Bring your own devices to plug in and share your work with others or work on it as a group. If you have a lecture in these rooms be ready for lots of group work and discussion. 

• Social space for work and free time. Socialise with your friends in one of the many seating areas or catch up on your work at pc facilities around the Prow of the Building. 

• Large Postgraduate Space. If you study at a postgraduate level you can access the large area with Computer labs, working space, photocopying facilities and even a kitchen for your late night coffee needs. 

• Staff Offices. Academic Staff, Support staff and Technical services have moved to new offices in the building to offer you support.

• English and Linguistics facilities. If you are a Linguistics or Language student you will be using the new facilities including Experimental Laboratory, Linguistics Laboratory and Language Laboratories equipped with international multimedia viewing and recording facilities. The Language Research Centre offers you the unique experience of being able to translate conferences as they happen from specially made booths with state of the art facilities.  

Corpus Linguistic software, Corpora and databases for language research

Students in Linguistics and Modern Languages have access to a wide range of electronic resources specifically for language research. These include a range of linguistic corpora (language databases) including, but not limited to, the following:

·         British National Corpus (100 million words of written and spoken British English)
·         Brown Corpus of 1960s American English
·         LOB (Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen) Corpus of 1960s British English
·         FLOB (Freiburg-LOB) Corpus of 1990s British English
·         Frown (Freiburg-Brown) Corpus of 1990s British English
·         Kolhapur Corpus of Indian English
·         Australian Corpus of English
·         Corpus of London Teenage Language
·         Helsinki Corpus of English Texts: Diachronic Part (including Old, Middle and Early Modern English)
·         Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots
·         Corpus of Early English Correspondence

In addition, we have numerous specially-constructed and annotated corpora compiled in the department, including the Early Modern English Discourse Presentation Corpus and the Early Modern English Modality Corpus.

We also have a range of licensed software available for corpus linguistic analysis. Currently this includes the following:
Wmatrix
WordSmith Tools
Sketch Engine

We encourage students to make use of the wide variety of freeware available for corpus linguistic analysis. Some particularly useful packages include:
AntConc
WebCorp
Multilingual Corpus Toolkit 

You can also access many databases designed to support language research, such as Early English Books Online, ProQuest Newsstand (providing access to news archives) and the online Oxford English Dictionary.

Babel

Babel is the quarterly language magazine that brings you cutting edge linguistic research in an accessible and colourful format. Edited by Huddersfield staff, our print and digital issues cover a vast array of language lovers' lore, taking in languages from around the world, the past, present and future of language, and the many different uses of linguistics in the world around us. Visit the Babel website to read a sample issue and find out more. 

 

‌Lingo

Lingo, the magazine for young readers, is also based here at Huddersfield. It contains fascinating articles about language, as well as language games and puzzles. Find out more by visiting the Lingo website. 

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Huddlings Blog

Keep up to date with the latest news from the Linguistics department in the Huddlings Blog. 

 

Oastler

The Oastler building is the home of the School of Music, Humanities and Media.

What can you find in the building?

• Collaborative Learning rooms. Bring your own devices to plug in and share your work with others or work on it as a group. If you have a lecture in these rooms be ready for lots of group work and discussion. 

• Social space for work and free time. Socialise with your friends in one of the many seating areas or catch up on your work at pc facilities around the Prow of the Building. 

• Large Postgraduate Space. If you study at a postgraduate level you can access the large area with Computer labs, working space, photocopying facilities and even a kitchen for your late night coffee needs. 

• Staff Offices. Academic Staff, Support staff and Technical services have moved to new offices in the building to offer you support.

• English and Linguistics facilities. If you are a Linguistics or Language student you will be using the new facilities including Experimental Laboratory, Linguistics Laboratory and Language Laboratories equipped with international multimedia viewing and recording facilities. The Language Research Centre offers you the unique experience of being able to translate conferences as they happen from specially made booths with state of the art facilities.  

The Oastler building is the home of the School of Music, Humanities and Media.

What can you find in the building?

• Collaborative Learning rooms. Bring your own devices to plug in and share your work with others or work on it as a group. If you have a lecture in these rooms be ready for lots of group work and discussion. 

• Social space for work and free time. Socialise with your friends in one of the many seating areas or catch up on your work at pc facilities around the Prow of the Building. 

• Large Postgraduate Space. If you study at a postgraduate level you can access the large area with Computer labs, working space, photocopying facilities and even a kitchen for your late night coffee needs. 

• Staff Offices. Academic Staff, Support staff and Technical services have moved to new offices in the building to offer you support.

Our Facilities

The University Library

The University Library is just two minutes’ walk from our teaching facilities. Our IT facilities have 24-hour access and subject specialists are on hand to help you find and use source materials and develop your information retrieval skills.

 

The Modern Language Centre

In our Modern Languages Centre we have great resources to help your language learning including two labs furnished with PCs loaded with Sanako language-learning software, as well as digital satellite TV connected to stations around the world. In our self-access studio we have a collection of dictionaries, magazines and newspapers, reference books and audio-visual aids in a multitude of languages, so that you can keep up to speed with the international scene.