About CLUL

The Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon (CLUL), a public R&D institution founded in 1932, is a unit of the School of Arts and Humanities (FLUL) devoted to research excellence in language sciences and related fields. We are an interdisciplinary research center within the Portuguese science system committed to advancing the understanding of language knowledge, acquisition and use, from the mental representation of grammar(s) to oral, audiovisual and written language processing, from language acquisition and development throughout the life span to language production and transmission across time, regions, cultures and peoples. CLUL’s research focuses on Portuguese in its multiple varieties, including diachronic, social, regional and national varieties, Portuguese-related Creoles, Portuguese as native, non-native and heritage language, in monolingual, bilingual, multilingual and contact language settings, and typical and atypical populations. Portuguese has unique characteristics in the Romance language space that offer an unrivalled opportunity for cross-linguistic and typological studies to uncover the specific and universal properties of language.

CLUL’s research extends beyond linguistics, encompassing the disciplines of psychology, cognitive science, medical sciences, speech therapy, computational engineering, history, anthropology, philosophy and literature. It combines theoretical, applied and experimental research, and field work, archive and computer-based treatment of language and speech data. The center houses three laboratories for experimental linguistics – the Psycholinguistics Lab, the Phonetics and Phonology Lab, and the Lisbon Baby Lab, as well as an additional speech lab facility for high quality acoustic recording. CLUL also owns an important specialized library of over 30k volumes.

Advanced training and knowledge transfer are at the heart of CLUL’s mission. The center is strongly involved in several advanced training programs at FLUL and ULisboa, and participates in the Mind-Brain College of ULisboa. It sees service to the community as a central part of its research activities, and develops initiatives to broadly disseminate research outcomes, and promote their application to societal demands, especially in the domains of Language and Speech Technologies, Health Care and well-being, Education, and Social Inclusion.

CLUL in numbers
  • Integrated members with PhD
    85
    number of Integrated members with PhD
  • Integrated members without PhD
    24
    number of integrated members without PhD
  • colaborators
    39
    number of colaborators at CLUL
  • projects
    8
    number of current financed projects at CLUL
  • groups
    5
    number of research groups at CLUL
History

THERE ARE THREE MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF CLUL.

 

 

 

brasão
1932

CLUL is a Portuguese public R&D institution founded in 1932 as a centre of philological studies. 

carimbo
1976

It developed into a research centre in linguistics that expanded its activities and scientific intervention over time, and was integrated as a centre of the University of Lisbon in 2004. 

flul
2008

CLUL becomes a research center of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), as integrated in the area of Language Sciences, after its merger with Onset-CEL, a R&D institution founded in 2004.

Management
LabFon - Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology
Director
Grammar & Resources
Member of the Direction Board
LabFon - Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology
Member of the Direction Board
Secretary
Heads of CLUL Research Groups
Dialectology and Diachrony
Group PI
Grammar & Resources
Group PI
LabFon - Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology
Group PI
Laboratory of Psycholinguistics
Group PI
Laboratory of Psycholinguistics
Group PI
Philology
Group PI
Advisory board

Currently consisting of:

University of Cambridge
University College Dublin
University of Cologne
BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Meertens Instituut, Netherlands