[Corpora-List] Linguistics and corpus linguistics at Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara

[Stefan Th. Gries]

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Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara

The Department of Linguistics at UCSB offers a Ph.D. program with a
functional theoretical orientation and a strong commitment to the
principle that linguistic theory should be based on language use. We
seek explanations for the linguistic structures of the world’s
languages in discourse and interaction, the sociocultural, cognitive,
and physical forces shaping language use, and the ways in which these
forces motivate language change.

Our recently restructured graduate program offers Ph.D. tracks in
structural, sociocultural, cognitive, and corpus linguistics.
Following a rigorous two-year Master’s program including courses in
all four areas, students take doctoral-level courses in their chosen
track, with flexibility reflecting their individual interests, and
advance to Ph.D. candidacy by the end of their fourth year. Training
in empirical methodologies is an essential component of our program;
in addition to Master’s level courses in discourse transcription and
basic statistics for linguistics, each Ph.D. track features relevant
methods courses, such as field methods, sociocultural methods, and
advanced statistics.

Our department has a strong tradition of language documentation and
description and, in addition to field methods, offers courses in
typology, language contact, grammar writing, and documentary
linguistics. The department also has an international reputation in
sociocultural linguistics, a broadly interdisciplinary specialization
originating at UCSB that encompasses the traditional fields of
sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, socially oriented discourse
analysis, and related areas. We now offer a corpus linguistics track
that gives students in-depth training on how to transcribe, annotate,
and retrieve corpus data, how to compile a corpus, and how to analyze
corpus data of different types using the most current statistical
techniques. Our cognitive track provides training in the cognitive and
psycholinguistic underpinnings of language, including language
acquisition, production, and comprehension, as well as advanced
statistical analysis.

We welcome applications to our graduate program. Be sure to note our
application deadline of December 1. UCSB offers four- and five-year
central fellowships to qualified applicants; smaller awards are also
available.

Please visit our website—www.linguistics.ucsb.edu—for further
information about our graduate program, faculty, research
specializations, and language areas.

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