28.4506, Support: General Linguistics: PhD or MA, McGill University

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:15:57
From: Morgan Sonderegger [morgan.sonderegger at mcgill.ca]
Subject: General Linguistics: PhD or MA, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

 Institution/Organization: McGill University 
Department: Linguistics 
Web Address: http://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/ 

Level: PhD,MA / MSc 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 
 

Description:

The Department of Linguistics at McGill University invites applications for
graduate admission for Fall 2018. We offer a competitive funding package for
five years for PhD students and one year and eight months for MA students. The
PhD program allows for applications straight from a B.A., or after an M.A.
Applicants are admitted to the program, rather than to work with a specific
supervisor. This gives students considerable flexibility in developing their
own research agenda. The program offers a tight curriculum of core courses in
the first year, and a lighter load with more in-depth courses in the second
year. PhD students write and defend two evaluation papers before embarking on
their dissertation research, as is common in other North American PhD
programs. 

Our PhD program focuses on theoretical and experimental approaches to
linguistics. We are excited to have recently added two new faculty members to
the experimental and computational side: Timothy J. O'Donnell (Computational
Models of Language Learning and Processing, Mathematical Linguistics,
Probabilistic Inference), and Francisco Torreira (Phonetics, Phonology,
Psycholinguistics, Prosody, Corpus Linguistics, Interactional Linguistics).

These new hires add to existing strengths in Syntax and Morphology (Jessica
Coon, Lisa Travis), Syntax and Semantics (Junko Shimoyama, Michael Wagner),
Formal Semantics and Pragmatics (Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Brendan Gillon and
Bernhard Schwarz), Phonology (Heather Goad, Morgan Sonderegger, Michael
Wagner), Phonetics and Psycholinguistics (Charles Boberg, Meghan Clayards),
Language Acquisition (Heather Goad, Lydia White), and Sociolinguistics
(Charles Boberg). 

Our program has a strong focus on methods (Field Methods, Formal Methods,
Experimental Methods, Computational Methods), and offers courses in a diverse
range of experimental and computational research areas: Meghan Clayards
(Phonetics and Psycholinguistics), Timothy O'Donnell (Computational Modeling
and Mathematical Linguistics), Morgan Sonderegger (Computational Phonology and
Phonetics), Michael Wagner (Prosody and Language Processing), Charles Boberg
(Sociolinguistics and Dialectology), Heather Goad (L1 and L2 Acquisition of
Phonology), and Lydia White (L2 Acquisition of Syntax). We have excellent
experimental facilities (sound attenuated booths, eye-trackers, etc.). We are
affiliated with the Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music
(http://crblm.ca) which has many additional resources, and have close ties to
the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, the Department of
Psychology, and the School of Computer Science at McGill. We also continue our
long tradition in teaching field methods and conducting fieldwork, today with
Jessica Coon's Fieldwork Lab at the center. 

Visit our webpage for more information about our research
(https://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/research) and the graduate programs
(https://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/graduate). Our website also provides
information on living in Montréal, where McGill University is located, a
cosmopolitan, bilingual, and affordable city. Instruction at McGill is in
English. 
 

Application Deadline: 10-Dec-2017 

Web Address for Applications: http://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/graduate/admission 

Contact Information: 
	Morgan Sonderegger 
	morgan.sonderegger at mcgill.ca  


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