LINGUIST List 21.4406 Thu Nov 04 2010 Support: General Linguistics: PhD Student, U. of Texas at Arlington, 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.     Laurel Stvan , General Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Message 1: General Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Date: 02-Nov-2010 From: Laurel Stvan <stvanuta.edu> Subject: General Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Texas at Arlington, USA E-mail this message to a friend Institution/Organization: University of Texas at Arlington Department: Linguistics and TESOL Web Address: http://ling.uta.edu Level: PhD Duties: Teaching Specialty Areas: General Linguistics Description: The Department of Linguistics & TESOL announces a five-year package (assistantship and full tuition) to exceptional candidates who are applying to begin doctoral studies in Fall 2011. These Enhanced Graduate Teaching Assistantships are for PhD Linguistics students newly admitted for the Fall 2011 semester and have a 9-month stipend of $15,300, in addition to a Graduate Doctoral Teaching Fellowship that will cover tuition for full-time enrollment. (9 hours of coursework per semester is a full-time load). Our Department has an established doctoral program, with strengths in language documentation, formal linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, phonetics), corpus linguistics, and second language acquisition, especially experimental approaches to SLA. Faculty strengths also include Asian, Austronesian, and Native American languages. We are hiring new faculty this year (an expansion hire) in language documentation. Facilities include a new Speech Sounds Lab with a soundproof booth and a portable ultrasound, and a Psycholinguistics Lab with an eye-tracker. The graduate students in our Department also organize an annual student conference that includes the Yumi Nakamura Prize in Linguistics, which awards a cash prize to the top presentations at the conference. Applicants should submit their materials by January 31, 2011, for fullest consideration for admission and for this funding. Funding award criteria is here: http://ling.uta.edu/documents/Enhanced%20Criteria.pdf Application information for prospective students can be found here: http://ling.uta.edu/prospective-students/ Applications Deadline: 31-Jan-2011 Mailing Address for Applications:         Attn: Graduate Advisor         Department of Linguistics & TESOL The University of Texas at Arlington         Box 19559 - 403 Hammond Hall         Arlington TX 76019-0559         USA Web Address for Applications: http://grad.uta.edu/prospective/apply/howto/ Contact Information:         Laurel Stvan         ling.advisoruta.edu Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 04-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.