LINGUIST List 21.4396 Tue Nov 02 2010 Support: French & General Ling: PhD Student, U. of Texas at Austin, USA Editor for this issue: Matthew Lahrman <mattlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Barbara Bullock , French & General Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin, USA Message 1: French & General Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin, USA Date: 31-Oct-2010 From: Barbara Bullock <bbullockaustin.utexas.edu> Subject: French & General Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin, USA E-mail this message to a friend Institution/Organization: University of Texas at Austin Department: French and Italian Web Address: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/frenchitalian/ Level: PhD Duties: Research Specialty Areas: General Linguistics Required Language(s): French (fra) Description: The Department of French and Italian at The University of Texas at Austin will offer merit-based graduate scholarships for outstanding students in French Linguistics beginning in fall 2011. The Julia Emerson Walther Scholars will receive generous multi-year packages that include highly competitive stipends, professional development support, and pre-dissertation funding for extensive study in a francophone country. About the program: There is currently a cohort of 23 graduate students in French Linguistics in the Department of French and Italian and 6 full-time faculty members: Carl Blyth, David Birdsong, Barbara E. Bullock, Bryan Donaldson, Jean-Pierre Montreuil and Cinzia Russi. Students in the program gain a strong background in linguistics that enables them to conduct extensive empirical research on the French language. Areas of specialization within the Department include historical linguistics and language change, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, language contact and language change, dialectology, second language acquisition, and language production, perception and processing. The Department has an excellent placement record for its graduates. The program, which aims to train future French linguists who intend to pursue a career in academic research and teaching, benefits from strong links with the departments of Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, Education, Spanish and Portuguese, German, Middle Eastern Studies, and Communication Sciences. In addition, the University of Texas at Austin has a student and faculty research exchange with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin can also receive course credits from the International Max Planck Research School in Nijmegen. Several student-organized language and linguistics conferences are held on an annual basis at the University of Texas at Austin, including FIGSO Conference (the French-Italian Graduate Students Organization Conference), SALSA (Symposium about Language and Society-Austin), TexFLEC (Texas Foreign Language Education Conference), and the TLS Conference (Texas Linguistics Society Conference). In addition, UT-Austin is home to a new National Foreign Language Resource Center, The Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL). The Center operates in conjunction with the Texas Language Technology Center and seeks to draw on and expand UT's many open educational resources. One such resource, designed at UT for the Internet public, is the globally popular Tex's French Grammar. Applications Deadline: 01-Jan-2011 Mailing Address for Applications:         Attn: Ms Rolee Rios         HRH 2.114A B7600         University of Texas at Austin         Austin TX 78712         USA Web Address for Applications: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/frenchitalian/graduate-program/french-graduate/Admissions.php Contact Information:         Professor Barbara Bullock         bbullockaustin.utexas.edu Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 02-Nov-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.