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PhD Specialization areas

PhD Specializations

  • All PhD students must complete the required courses (15 credits) as well as a required primary specialization area. 

  • Additional specialization areas can be completed as part of the 24 “related” credit requirement.

Required  courses for all PhD students  (15 credits)

Note: We encourage students to take these courses in their first year. PhD students are expected to pass their qualifying exams (QEs) before the start of their second year, and are expected to take at least the syntax and phonology sequence in year 1.

  • LING 607 Phonology I

  • LING 609 Syntax I

  • LING 608 Phonology II

  • LING 610 Syntax II

  • CGSC 696 Psycholinguistics

Required primary specialization area:  Syntax/Semantics or Phonology 

(12 required course credits plus 24 related credits, including at least three 800 level seminars) 

 

Students can chose to complete a specialization area in addition to one of the core areas. 

The specialization area can count as part of the “24 related credits” requirement in the core area.  

SYNTAX/SEMANTICS 

LING 691: Semantics 
LING 830: Syntax III or LING 831: Topics in Syntax 
LING 851: Linguistic Field Methods
LING 832: Acquisition of Syntax
24 credits related course work  (chosen in consultation with your advisor) 

PHONOLOGY

LING 612: Intro to Morphology
LING 861: Topics in Phonology
LING 633: Intro to Acoustic Phonetics
LING 862: Acquisition of Phonology
24 credits related course work (chosen in consultation with your advisor) 

Additional areas that can be added to the primary specialization areas:

Psycholinguistics 

24 credits: 3 required courses, 15 additional credits
EDUC 665: Elementary Statistics or PSYC 860: Psychological Statistics 1
EDUC 856: Intro to Stat. Inference or     PSYC 861: Psychological Statistics 2
CGSC 890: Topics in Psycholinguistics
15 additional credits in CGSC, LING or PSYC
-- Recommended courses: CGSC 850: Topics in Experimental Methods
                                               CGSC: 620 Research Methods

 

Field Linguistics and Language Documentation  

24 credits: 3 required courses, 15 additional credits
LING 612: Intro to Morphology or LING 851: Linguistic Field Methods
LING 801: Language typology
LING 852: Advanced Field Methods
15 credits of related course work from CGSC or LING

 

Computational Linguistics (3 required courses + 5 related courses)

24 credits: 3 required courses, 15 additional credits

LING 651:  Logical Structures in Language
CISC 681: Artificial Intelligence
LING 867:          Advanced topics in computational linguistics
15 credits of related course work from CISC or LING
-- Recommended courses: CISC 601:  Elements of the Theory of Computation
                                               CISC621:  Algorithm Design and Analysis