30.3367, FYI: New Language Science PhD Program at UCI

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Subject: 30.3367, FYI: New Language Science PhD Program at UCI

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Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 02:49:06
From: Lisa Pearl [lpearl at uci.edu]
Subject: New Language Science PhD Program at UCI

 
The Department of Language Science at the University of California, Irvine,
invites applications for Fall, 2020, for a new language science doctoral
program
(https://grad.uci.edu/academics/degree-programs/phd/LanguageSciencePHD.php).
UCI is located in Orange County, CA, between Los Angeles and San Diego, and
just minutes from the ocean. We are a Department of Language Science that
merges the cross-disciplinarity of linguistics, psychology, and cognitive
neuroscience with a focus on computational and experimental studies of
language development, semantics and pragmatics, syntax, speech, and
bilingualism.  

As the first of its kind in the country, our program provides a new approach
to the science of language, enabling exciting opportunities for deep
collaboration and cutting edge cross-fertilization.  Our aim is to prepare
students to be at the forefront of change in the field, empowering them to be
the future leaders driving innovation. Our faculty bring expertise in
innovative technologies for quantitative, neuroscientific, and behavioral
approaches to language science. Graduate training incorporates curricular
flexibility, development of technical communication skills, and prioritization
of research early in the graduate career. We welcome applications from
students who wish to develop cross-disciplinary collaborations across
different faculty research programs.

We encourage prospective students to contact faculty for specific information
about their labs or Judith Kroll (judith.kroll at uci.edu), graduate director,
for more general information about the program.  The deadline for applications
is December 1, 2019.

**The core language science faculty include: 

Richard Futrell (rfutrell at uci.edu): linguistics, natural language processing,
Bayesian modeling, information theory

Gregory Hickok (greg.hickok at uci.edu): neuroanatomy of language, neural
plasticity, neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience

Judith Kroll (judith.kroll at uci.edu): bilingualism, cognition, language
processing, cognitive neuroscience 

Virginia Mann (vmann at uci.edu): reading ability, speech perception

Lisa Pearl (lpearl at uci.edu): language development, linguistics, computational
sociolinguistics, cognitive modeling

Gregory Scontras (gscontra at uci.edu): formal semantics, computational and
experimental studies of meaning, heritage languages
 

**Affiliated language science faculty include:

Alyssa Brewer (aabrewer at uci.edu): neuroimaging of visual perception, visual
deficits, neurological disorders

Carol Connor (ConnorCM at UCI.edu): reading comprehension, executive function,
behavioral regulation development, technology & assessment

Brandy Gatlin (gatlinb at uci.edu): language, reading, writing, cultural and
linguistic diversity, measurement and assessment, instruction

Glenn Levine (glevine at uci.edu): applied linguistics, theoretical linguistics,
foreign language pedagogy, German-Jewish literature, Yiddish language and
literature

Elizabeth Peña (edpena at uci.edu): bilingualism, language impairment, language
development, assessment bias and measurement

Sameer Singh (sameer at uci.edu): large-scale machine learning, information
extraction, natural language processing, probabilistic programming,
interactive machine learning, distributed & parallel inference,
semi-supervised learning

Julio Torres (torresju at uci.edu): heritage and second language acquisition,
bilingualism, cognition, task-based language learning, curriculum &
instruction

Kai Wehmeier (wehmeier at uci.edu): logic, philosophy of logic and language,
early analytic philosophy, philosophy of mathematics

**Emeritus Faculty
Bernard Tranel (bhtranel at uci.edu): linguistic theory, phonology, phonetics,
morphology, Optimality Theory, Romance languages, French linguistics, tone
languages, Margi, Mixtec
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax





 



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