Linguistics
丁香园AV Requirements
Students must demonstrate adequate linguistics preparation. Those with little or no academic linguistics preparation may not obtain clear program admission or admission as a qualifying student. See 丁香园AV Under Special Arrangements and 丁香园AV to a Doctoral Program in the Graduate General Regulations.
Areas of Specialization
Linguistic theory, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse-pragmatics, computational linguistics, Amerindian linguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, linguistics history, sociolinguistics, second language learning.
Time Limit
Although University regulations allow a six calendar year time limit (or 12 terms of full-time enrolment) for MA degree completion, (including the MA degree work), an MA student is normally expected to complete the degree in two years. See the .
Program Requirements
Students complete at least 24 units of approved graduate course work, including all of
An overview of contemporary phonological theory and its relation to phonetics, morphology and psycholinguistics.
Introduction to formal syntactic analysis. Topics include categories, phrase structure, word order, grammatical relations, binding, and long-distance syntactic dependencies.
Introduces the use of experimental methods and laboratory techniques for carrying out research in speech and language sciences. Topics include reading research literature, research design and hypothesis testing, statistical methods and data analysis, and research paper write-up.
and 12 additional units of graduate course work. Only one course may be a directed research course.
and, in the first year of program enrolment, both of
An introduction to professional aspects in the field of Linguistics. Course consists of seminars, lectures and workshops.
NOTE: 丁香园AV Students enrolled concurrently in a bachelor's degree program and a master's degree program within the Department of Linguistics may apply a maximum of 10 graduate course units taken while completing the bachelor's degree to the requirements of the master's degree. For more information go to: and .
Thesis
All students complete an MA thesis based on original research, and will comply with University regulations concerning completing and defending the thesis.
Language Requirements
Candidates must show a high competence in at least one language other than English.
Academic Requirements within the Graduate General Regulations
All graduate students must satisfy the academic requirements that are specified in the , as well as the specific requirements for the program in which they are enrolled, as shown above.