Welcome to the Linguistics Department
The UCSD Department of Linguistics is unique among leading doctoral programs. Three traits in particular contribute to its distinctive character and define its educational philosophy.
First, the faculty conduct research and offer in-depth instruction in a variety of theoretical frameworks, both formal and cognitive/functional. Students find their training in multiple perspectives to be both educationally beneficial and advantageous in seeking employment and conducting their professional careers.
Second, the program emphasizes the study of diverse languages, for their own sake as well as for the empirical testing of theoretical claims. The faculty have research interests in numerous, typologically varied languages. Theoretical courses emphasize cross-linguistic generalizations and the analysis of a wide range of languages.
Third, the department is an active and integral part of the cognitive science and neuroscience communities at UCSD, which rank among the world's finest. For example, most Linguistics faculty also have appointments in the Cognitive Science Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program, which many Linguistics students participate in. Faculty and students engage in a spectrum of experimental research that encompasses phonetics, signed languages, psycholinguistics, event-related brain potentials (ERPs), and computational modeling.
Events
February 8
Colloquium: Jim Hurford
January 25
Colloquium: Line Mikkelsen
January 21
Cadiz Global Seminar Info Session
4:30-5:30pm, Oceanids
More ...January 9, 2010
Language Proficiency Exam (reading portion)
10:00am in HSS 2150
December 15
Linguistics Dept. Holiday Party
2:00-4:00pm in AP&M 4301
November 23
Colloquium: Beth Hume
Contact:
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0108
Tel 858-822-2711
FAX 858-534-4789
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Publication of Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B
Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B: Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David Perlmutter has been published by MIT Press. The book is a tribute to David Perlmutter's influential career in linguistics and was edited by Donna Gerdts, John Moore and Maria Polinsky. It features twenty-three papers by David's colleagues and former students.
Welcome Prof. Caballero
We are delighted to welcome Prof. Gabriela Caballero, who joins the UCSD Department of Linguistics in January, 2010. Prof. Caballero graduated from UC Berkeley in 2008 and is currently completing an ELDP post-doctoral fellowship at UNAM / SUNY Stony Brook. She specializes in language documentation, morphology, phonology, historical linguistics and typology, with a language focus on Raramuri and other Uto-Aztecan languages. She will be teaching graduate-level Field Methods in the winter quarter.
Two Linguistic Pioneers
UCSD Linguistics regrets to announce the enormous losses of two emeritus professors and foundational members of the department, Edward S. Klima and Sige-Yuki Kuroda.