Graduate Study
The Graduate Program in Linguistics at Cornell focuses on training Ph.D. students to become researchers in linguistics. Most of our students go on to academic positions. Our program has strengths in the core disciplines of
phonology,
syntax and
semantics, as well as historical linguistics,
phonetics,
computational linguistics, and several interface areas – phonetics/phonology, phonology/syntax, and syntax/semantics. The core requirements are designed to insure that all students gain a broad-based knowledge of the field, and research plays a large role very early on in a student’s program.
Although our graduate program has a strong theoretical emphasis, our curriculum also incorporates the detailed study and analysis of particular languages, including a commitment to
fieldwork. Most of the faculty have research interests and expertise in particular languages and/or language areas (including Slavic, Germanic, Romance,
East Asian, Southeast Asian, Australian,
Indo-European), and work done in all disciplines in the department combines descriptive meticulousness with theoretical insight.
Our program also provides opportunities for experimentally oriented work. The
Phonetics Lab and the
Computational Linguistics Lab offer laboratory resources for running experiments in phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistic and computational areas of linguistics.
The links in the menu to the left provide additional information about graduate study in Linguistics at Cornell University.
