Stanford Linguistics: Funding for Non-US Students

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To: HPSG and LFG lists
From: Joan Bresnan and Ivan Sag
Re: Stanford Linguistics

Dear colleagues,

We would like to bring to your attention some information about
Stanford's graduate program in linguistics.  A number of students whom
we have met abroad are unaware that they could compete for admission
to many American Ph.D. programs, including Stanford's, on an equal
footing with students from the U.S.

Unfortunately, admission to Stanford's Ph.D. program in linguistics is
expensive and highly competitive, because Stanford is a private
university ranked among the top three research-Ph.D. universities in
the U.S. (with Harvard and Berkeley) and its Linguistics Department is
among the top two (with MIT).  But full funding is available for those
graduate students selected for admission, and that includes students
from abroad.

We would therefore like to encourage applications from qualified
candidates in other countries. For your information, we enclose a list
of faculty in our department and in related programs at Stanford and
the surrounding community. Further information is available from the
department's (http://bhasa.stanford.edu/) and CSLI's
(http://www-csli/csli/) world wide web pages and the related pages
accessible from these. But if there is any further information we can
provide, please don't hesitate to contact us directly.


Joan Bresnan (bresnan at csli.stanford.edu)
Ivan Sag (sag at csli.stanford.edu)


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Stanford University - Department of Linguistics 
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Faculty:

Joan W. Bresnan (PhD, MIT, 1972). Syntactic theory, universal
   grammar, computational linguistics, Bantu linguistics. 
Eve V. Clark (PhD, U of Edinburgh, 1969). Language acquisition, 
   semantic and pragmatic issues in the lexicon.  
Penelope Eckert (PhD, Columbia U, 1978). Sociolinguistic variation. 
   Adolescent development of social categories. [also Senior Research 
   Scientist: Institute for Research on Learning]
Shirley Brice Heath (PhD, Columbia U, 1970). Spoken and written language,
  first and second language acquisition, language planning, ethnography 
  of communication. [also Professor of English and, by courtesy, of 
  Anthropology and Education.]
Philip Hubbard (PhD, UC San Diego, 1980). TESOL, computer-assisted 
  language learning (CALL), linguistic theory and language teaching. 
Martin Kay (MA, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1961). Computational
  linguistics, especially machine translation. [also Research Fellow, 
  Xerox PARC]
Paul Kiparsky (PhD, MIT, 1965). Phonology, historical linguistics,
  morphology, lexical organization.
William R. Leben (PhD, MIT, 1973). Phonology, African linguistics,
  Hausa.
Beverley J. McChesney (MA, San Francisco State University, 1969). TESOL.
Stanley Peters (SB, MIT, 1963). Semantics, computational linguistics,
  mathematical linguistics.
John R. Rickford (PhD, U Pennsylvania, 1979). Sociolinguistic 
  variation and change, AAVE, Creole languages, style.
Ivan A. Sag (PhD, MIT, 1976). Syntax, semantics, language processing
 (both human and computer). French grammar.
Peter Sells (PhD, U Mass, Amherst, 1984). Syntax, morphology, Japanese
  and Korean grammar.
Henriette de Swart (PhD, U Groningen, 1991). Semantics (French,
  Dutch, English), syntax/semantics/pragmatics interfaces. 
Elizabeth C. Traugott (PhD, UC Berkeley, 1964). Historical syntax 
  and semantics, grammaticalization, socio-historical linguistics, 
  linguistics and literature. [also Professor of English]
Thomas Wasow (PhD, MIT, 1972). Syntactic theory, mathematical linguistics, 
  language processing, sociolinguistics. [also Professor of Philosophy]
Arnold M. Zwicky (PhD, MIT, 1965). Syntax, morphology, phonology, 
  interfaces. [also Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Ohio State 
  University]
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Emeritus Faculty:

Clara N. Bush (PhD, Stanford U, 1960). TESOL, phonetics.
Charles A. Ferguson (PhD, U of Penn, 1945). Language acquisition, 
  Arabic, Bengali, ``simplified'' systems, ritual language, politeness.
Joseph H. Greenberg (PhD, Northwestern U, 1940). Typology, language 
  universals, historical linguistics, genetic linguistic classification.
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Faculty by Courtesy:

John Baugh (PhD, U Pennsylvania, 1979). Sociolingusitics, AAVE, educational 
  applications of linguistic research. [Professor, School of Education]
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Consulting Faculty:

Jared Bernstein (PhD, U of Michigan, 1976). Speech synthesis, speech
  recognition, experimental phonetics. [Senior Computer Scientist,
  SRI International]
Mary Dalrymple (PhD, Stanford, 1990). Syntactic theory, semantics, 
  computational linguistics. [Member of Research Staff, Xerox PARC]
Per-Kristian Halvorsen (PhD, U Texas Austin, 1978). Semantics,
  constraint-based grammar, computational linguistics. [Principal 
  Scientist and Laboratory Manager, Xerox PARC]
Jerry R. Hobbs (PhD, NYU, 1974). Computational linguistics, discourse 
  analysis, knowledge representation, text interpretation. [Senior 
  Computer Scientist, AI Center - SRI International]
Charlotte Linde (PhD, Columbia U, 1974). Discourse analysis, narrative. 
  [Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Research on Learning]
Ronald M. Kaplan (PhD, Harvard U, 1975). Computational linguistics,
  morphology, syntax. [Research Fellow, Xerox PARC]
Geoffrey Nunberg (PhD, CUNY, 1977). Pragmatics and lexical semantics, 
  lexicography, written language, the relation of language to political 
  issues. [Member of Research Staff, Xerox PARC and Usage Editor, the 
  American Heritage Dictionary.]
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Affiliated Faculty in Other Departments:

Johan van Benthem (Philosophy; Logic, Semantics, Philosophy of Language)
Herbert H. Clark (Psychology; discourse, psychology of language)
James A. Fox (Anthropology; anthropological and historical linguistics; Mayan) 
Kenji Hakuta (Education; language development, language and education)
Yoshiko Matsumoto (Asian Languages; Japanese linguistics, pragmatics)
Mary L. Pratt (Spanish and Portuguese; Span. and Port. ling.)
Orrin W. Robinson (German Studies; Germanic, historical linguistics)
Richard D. Schupbach (Slavic Languages and Literatures; Slavic linguistics)
Melanie Sperling (Education)
Chao Fen Sun (Asian Languages; Chinese and historical linguistics)
Guadalupe Valdez (Education, Spanish and Portuguese)
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Some Other Researchers in the Stanford Community:

Ann Copestake (CSLI; computational linguistics, semantics, lexicon)
John Etchemendy (Philosophy; semantics, philosophy of language, logic)
Dan Flickinger (CSLI; computational linguistics, syntax, lexicon)
J. Mark Gawron (SRI International; computational linguistics,
                semantics, syntax)
Megumi Kameyama (SRI International; computational linguistics, syntax,
                 grammar of Japanese) 
Robert Moore (SRI International; computational linguistics, semantics)
Ray Perrault (SRI International; computational linguistics, pragmatics)
John Perry (Philosophy; semantics, philosophy of language)
Patti Price (SRI International; computational linguistics, phonetics)
David Rumelhart (Psychology; neural networks, perception)
Edward Zalta (CSLI; logic, philosophy of language)
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