25.4351, Support: General Linguistics / Canada

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Subject: 25.4351, Support: General Linguistics / Canada

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Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:01:45
From: Junko Shimoyama [junko.shimoyama at mcgill.ca]
Subject: General Linguistics: MA & PhD Student, McGill University, Canada

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

Level: Open 

Duties: Research,Project Work

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 
Experimental Linguistics 

Description:

The Department of Linguistics at McGill University invites applications for graduate admission for Fall 2015. 

We offer 5 years of funding for PhD students and 1 year and 8 months of funding 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. Students write and defend two evaluation papers before embarking on their dissertation research, as is common in other North American Ph.D. programs. 
The stand-alone M.A. program is intended for students who wish to pursue further studies in Linguistics before deciding whether or not to continue on to a Ph.D. program. We also offer a Qualifying Year program for students transitioning into Linguistics from other fields. 

Our graduate program offers two Streams leading to a PhD, focusing on experimental and theoretical approaches, respectively. The Experimental Stream offers a two-course sequence in Experimental Linguistics ('Foundations' and 'Methods'), focusing on experimental and statistical methods. We offer a variety of further courses in the areas of expertise of Meghan Clayards (Phonetics/Psycholinguistics), Morgan Sonderegger (Computational Phonology/Phonetics), Michael Wagner (Prosody/Language Processing), Charles Boberg (Sociolinguistics/Dialectology), Heather Goad (L1/L2 Acquisition of Phonology), and Lydia White (L2 Acquisition of Syntax). In addition, our department hopes to add a specialist in Phonetics or related experimental fields this year. The Experimental Stream allows our students to focus on empirical studies while also acquiring a solid grounding in linguistic theory. 
We continue our tradition of excellence in theoretical training with our Theoretical Stream. After completing core courses covering the areas of syntax, semantics and phonology, students in the Theoretical Stream continue with advanced seminars and research in the areas of Syntax/Morphology (Jessica Coon, Lisa Travis), Syntax/Semantics (Junko Shimoyama), Formal Semantics/Pragmatics (Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Brendan Gillon and Bernhard Schwarz), and Phonology (Heather Goad, Morgan Sonderegger, Michael Wagner). We have also reinvigorated the department's long tradition in teaching field methods and conducting fieldwork, which has recently resulted in a collaborative language revitalization project with a local community (migmaq.org). 

The department has excellent resources for conducting empirical research: two experimental labs, a field methods lab, and a computational lab, equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, including eye trackers, sound-attenuated booths, and high-performance computers. We are affiliated with many other experimental facilities through the Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music (crblm.ca), and also have close ties to the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders and the Department of Psychology.

More information about research and teaching in the department is available on our website: http://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. 

How to Apply:
Required documents for application are listed on the application website. 

Application Deadline: 15-Dec-2014 

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

Contact Information: 
	Junko Shimoyama 
	junko.shimoyama at mcgill.ca  

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