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LINGUIST List 20.3936

Mon Nov 16 2009

FYI: UCSB Linguistics Program Restructured

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        1.    Stefan Th. Gries, UCSB Linguistics Program Restructured
Message 1: UCSB Linguistics Program Restructured
Date: 15-Nov-2009
From: Stefan Th. Gries <stgriesgmail.com>
Subject: UCSB Linguistics Program Restructured
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The Department of Linguistics at UCSB offers a Ph.D. program with a
functional theoretical orientation and a strong commitment to the principle
that linguistic theory should be based on language use. We seek
explanations for the linguistic structures of the world’s languages in
discourse and interaction, the sociocultural, cognitive, and physical
forces shaping language use, and the ways in which these forces motivate
language change.

Our recently restructured graduate program offers Ph.D. tracks in
structural, sociocultural, cognitive, and corpus linguistics. Following a
rigorous two-year Master’s program including courses in all four areas,
students take doctoral-level courses in their chosen track, with
flexibility reflecting their individual interests, and advance to Ph.D.
candidacy by the end of their fourth year. Training in empirical
methodologies is an essential component of our program; in addition to
Master’s level courses in discourse transcription and basic statistics for
linguistics, each Ph.D. track features relevant methods courses, such as
field methods, sociocultural methods, and advanced statistics.

Our department has a strong tradition of language documentation and
description and, in addition to field methods, offers courses in typology,
language contact, grammar writing, and documentary linguistics. The
department also has an international reputation in sociocultural
linguistics, a broadly interdisciplinary specialization originating at UCSB
that encompasses the traditional fields of sociolinguistics, linguistic
anthropology, socially oriented discourse analysis, and related areas. We
now offer a corpus linguistics track that gives students in-depth training
on how to transcribe, annotate, and retrieve corpus data, how to compile a
corpus, and how to analyze corpus data of different types using the most
current statistical techniques. Our cognitive track provides training in
the cognitive and psycholinguistic underpinnings of language, including
language acquisition, production, and comprehension, as well as advanced
statistical analysis.

We welcome applications to our graduate program. Be sure to note our
application deadline of December 1. UCSB offers four- and five-year central
fellowships to qualified applicants; smaller awards are also available.

Please visit our website - www.linguistics.ucsb.edu - for further
information about our graduate program, faculty, research specializations,
and language areas.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
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