Graduates
Diversity and Graduate Admissions
The ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Department of Linguistics seeks to create and maintain an inclusive, open, equitable, mutually respectful, and intellectually rich environment that embraces diversity among its faculty and students. Read about our commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence in graduate admissions.
The Department offers the following graduate programs:
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- MA in Linguistics
- Professional Master's in Computational Linguistics, Analytics, Search and Informatics (CLASIC)
The Department’s stature as a center of research and graduate training derives from the research productivity of its award-winning faculty, its close supervision of doctoral students and its strong record of grant activity. ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Linguistics MA and PhD graduates have taken diverse career paths in academics and industry. This page lists placements of recent PhD graduates. Doctoral students in the Department may specialize in any of the following areas:
- Discourse-functional Syntax
- Corpus Syntax
- Computational Linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Conversation Analysis
- Native American Linguistics
- Language Documentation and Revitalization
- Phonology/Computational Phonology
- Experimental Phonetics/Laboratory Phonology
- Psycholinguistics
- Language Development
- Construction-based grammar
- Typology
According to its Academic Analytics Scholarly Research Index, a measure that combines research productivity with citation counts and grant expenditures, the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Linguistics department ranks seventh in the nation among AAU Public linguistics departments and programs (for the years 2013-2018). It shares this ranking with the UC Berkeley and UC San Diego linguistics departments.
The Department offers certificate programs to augment graduate degrees in Linguistics.