Sociolinguistics and language policy research investigates language variation and multilingual usage, and the connections between social factors which affect usage.
On 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science will be held for the second time in Estonia, initiated here by the University of Tartu and the Estonian Young Academy of Sciences.
Several Finnic languages, such as Livonian, Votic, Ingrian and Veps, are studied at the institute. This is done using a variety of approaches, from experimental phonetics to sociolinguistic methods.
Research on second language acquisition focuses on the L2 acquisition of Estonian, and the effects of language teaching and sociolinguistic factors on language acquisition.