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Linguistics
The areas of specialization in this program are: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, documentation and linguistic analysis of North American Indigenous Languages, historical and comparative linguistics, first and second language acquisition, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics.
間眅埶AV Requirements
Applicants must satisfy the university admission requirements as stated in Graduate General Regulations 1.3 in the 間眅埶AV Calendar. Students must also demonstrate adequate linguistics preparation. Those with little or no academic linguistics preparation may not obtain program admission or admission as a qualifying student.
Program Requirements
This program offers a thesis option, project option, and course work option for a minimum of 38 units.
Students must complete
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.
Designed to help students develop practical skills that will support their professional development as linguists, including writing research articles and preparing conference presentations, as well as critically evaluating and discussing influential works in the field. It is designed for second year students who are actively working on research projects, theses, and qualifying papers, so that they can share key literature related to their research and present their on-going work to benefit from the feedback of their cohort.
and three graduate courses**
and requirements for one of the options below
Thesis Option
Project Option
and four additional graduate courses**
Course-based Option
and six additional graduate courses**
* LING 890 and LING 891 should be completed in the first year of program enrollment.
** must be approved by the supervisor. Only one directed research course allowed.
Accelerated Master's
間眅埶AV students accepted in the accelerated master’s within the Department of Linguistics may apply a maximum of 10 graduate course units, taken while completing the bachelor's degree, towards the upper division electives of the bachelor's program and the requirements of the master's degree. These graduate courses must be passed with a grade of B (3.0) or better in order to be used towards the requirements of the master's degree. Students may apply for the Accelerated MA once they have completed 90 units with a 3.67 or greater CGPA. For more information go to: /gradstudies/apply/programs/accelerated-masters.html and .
Program Length
Students are expected to complete the program requirements in six terms.
Academic Requirements within the Graduate General Regulations
All graduate students must satisfy the academic requirements that are specified in the Graduate General Regulations, as well as the specific requirements for the program in which they are enrolled.