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 both theoretical and empirical/experimental approaches to language. Students find their training in these 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, and conduct fieldwork on, typologically varied languages. Graduate students received training in field methods. Theoretical courses emphasize cross-linguistic generalizations and the analysis of a 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.

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News

UCSD Linguists featured at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Portland, OR in January 2012: Amalia Arvaniti, Rebecca Colavin, Kate Davidson, Andy Kehler, Robert Kleunder, Roger Levy, Dan Michel, Bozena Pajak, Page Piccinini, Lisa Rosenfelt, Sharon Rose. Much of the research is in collaboration with former students - Emily Hayes, Hannah Rohde - and other UCSD colleagues - David Barner (Psychology), Sarah Creel (Cognitive Science) and Marta Kutas (Cognitive Science)

Welcome to Dr. Victoria Fossum, who is working with Roger Levy and colleagues as a post-doctoral fellow in the Computational Psycholinguistics Lab.

Welcome to Dr. Gracia Piñero who joins us as a visiting scholar from the Departamento de Filología Española de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She will be working on metaphor in Spanish  and with John Moore on the Border Spanish Project.

Roger Levy and Keith Rayner (UCSD Psychology) have been awarded a five-year R01 research grant from the NIH (NICHD) on Linguistic Processes in Sentence Comprehension and Reading.

Roger Levy has received a 5-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation for his project "Rational Language Processing with Uncertain and Noisy Input".

Events

Careers in Linguistics Panel

Career Center

Tuesday, January 24th, 2-3:30pm

Liz Bollig, FBI Language Division

Maryam Abdi, Somali Interpreter

Emily Wilson, Computer Linguists, Spawar

Professor Amalia Arvaniti, UCSD

Satoshi Enoue, Computer Linguist, Systran

Colloquium

Mon. 2-4pm, AP&M 4301

Feb. 6, 2012
Daniel Büring (U. Wien)

April 16, 2012
Daphna Heller (U. of Toronto)

April 30, 2012
Yael Sharvit (UCLA)

May 14, 2012
Sharon Hargus (U. of Washington)

CRL Talks

Center for Research in Language

Tues. 4pm CSB 280

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Contact:

Department of Linguistics
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0108
Tel 858-822-2711
FAX 858-534-4789

Campus Location:

Applied Physics and Mathematics Building (AP&M)
Muir College Campus

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