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.
Grants and other news
Marc Garellek will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor in Phonetics, starting July 1, 2013.
Rachel Mayberry has been awarded a 5 year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIDCD) to investigate Age of acquisition effects on sign language development and brain processing.
Gabriela Caballero has a received a 30 month grant from the National Science Foundation Documenting Endangered Languages Program for her research project "A reference grammar of Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)."
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"
Conference
American International
Morphology Meeting 2
November 8-10, 2013
Click here for details.
Spring Quarter
Colloquium
Monday, May 13
Andrew Garrett
(U.C. Berkeley)
The chronology of Proto-Indo-European: New evidence from computational phylogenetics
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301
Monday, May 6
Matt Wagers
(U.C. Santa Cruz)
Grammatical prediction in Chamorro: WH agreement and real-time dependency formation
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301
CRL Talks
Center for Research in Language
Tues. 4pm CSB 280
LingUA
Global Seminar Info
Flamenco & Spanish Dialects in Cadiz
(Summer 2013)
Symposium
KPBS video about the Hollywood Linguistics event is here. (Starts at 18:39)
KPBS web article about the Hollywood Linguistics event is here.
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9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0108
Tel 858-822-2711
FAX 858-534-4789
Campus Location:
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Muir College Campus
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Congratulations!
Eric Bakovic and Sharon Rose have both been promoted to Full Professor, effective July 1.
Professor Emeritus David Perlmutter has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Lisa Rosenfelt successfully defended her dissertation, Rethinking the functional significance of Early Negativity: Investigations in the language/sensory-motor interface. She will be post-doctoral researcher in the Vision, Action, Cognition Lab at the Université Paris 7.
Naja Ferjan Ramirez will defend her dissertation on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 11:00 am- 1:00 pm in the Applied Physics and Mathematics Building room 4301.
John Moore has been appointed the new Provost of Muir College at UCSD.
Naja Ferjan Ramirez has accepted a post-doctoral research position with Patricia Kuhl, co-director of The Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington. She will be conducting behavioral and neuroimaging studies with infants and children.
Scott Seyfarth has received a National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Studies Institute grant to conduct research at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in summer, 2013, AND a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Sharon Rose has received a KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) Visiting Professor fellowship for 2013-14 to be held at Leiden University.
Roger Levy has received a Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behaviorial Sciences fellowship for 2013-14
Lucien Carroll has been awarded a UCMexus dissertation grant for his project "Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec Word Prosodic Phonology"
Roger Levy has been named a 2012 Sloan Research Fellow. The two-year fellowship recognizes researchers for distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.