Department: Lingusitics
Web Address: http://www.linguistics.northwestern.edu/programs/graduate.html
Level: PhD
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics
Description:
In conjunction with our institutional partners, the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University invites applications for graduate fellowships in linguistics and interdisciplinary research in language. All admitted students receive a 5 year funding commitment (subject to satisfactory progress towards the degree) including tuition, a 12-month stipend, and health insurance. Students also have access to a variety of institutional resources for supporting student research projects and professional travel.
Northwestern has a vibrant community of researchers actively working on a wide variety of issues in language structure and processing, utilizing a diverse range of methods and populations.
Issues:
-Structure of linguistic systems within and across levels: Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Morphology, Phonology, Phonetics
-Perception, production and acquisition of first and second languages
-Dynamics of language: diachronic change; experience-related plasticity
-Language and music: Parallels and interactions
Methods:
-Statistical modeling; probabilistic approaches to language structure and processing
-Formal/mathematica l theories of linguistic systems
-Experimental studies of language; psycholinguistics
-Acoustic phonetics; prosody and intonation
-Machine learning and natural language processing; corpus analysis
-Functional and structural neuroimaging; electrophysiology
Populations:
-Mono- and multilingual
-Infant, young adult and elderly
-Acquired and developmental disorders
For more information on graduate study, research, and the application process,
visit us online:
http://www.linguistics.northwestern.edu/programs/graduate.html
If you have questions please contact the admissions officer, Matt Goldrick (see
contact information below).
Application Deadline: 31-Dec-2009
Web Address for Applications: http://www.tgs.northwestern.edu/admission/
Contact Information:
Matt Goldrick
admissions@ling. northwestern. edu
Phone:847-491- 8053
Fax:847-491- 7020
Please quote 10 Academic Resources Daily in your application to this opportunity!
