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Program Name:	Linguistics
Alternate Name:	University of New Mexico
Program Homepage:	http://www.unm.edu/~linguist/
Institution:	University of New Mexico
Address:	MSC03 2130, Department of Linguistics
	Humanities Bldg. 526
City:	Albuquerque
Zip/Postal Code:	87131
State/Province:	NM
Country:	USA
Application Deadline:	All PhD applications seeking financial aid must be received by January 15
Contact Person:	Sherman Wilcox
Email:	click here to access email
Phone:	505-277-6353
Linguistic Subfield(s):	Text/Corpus Linguistics
Language/Language Family Specialization(s):	American Sign Language
Program Size:	Small (1-10 students)
Program Description:	The Department of Linguistics offers an undergraduate major and minor in Linguistics; the Signed Language Interpreting program; the Concentration in Signed Language Studies; and the Native American Linguistics program. The Department of Linguistics offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees with particular strengths in functional and cognitive approaches to linguistic theory, Southwest languages (including Spanish and Native American languages of the region), American Sign Language (ASL), sociolinguistics (especially in bilingual and multicultural settings), and psycholinguistics. Graduate students in a number of other departments, especially Anthropology, Education, Psychology, Spanish and Portuguese, and Speech and Hearing Sciences may develop concentrations in linguistics at the master's level. Students interested in graduate work in linguistics in another department are advised to consult the Chair of the Department of Linguistics as well as the department to which they are applying.

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