Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It studies both the structure and the use of language. Language is a universal human characteristic. All human languages share some traits, while diverging in particulars. Linguists may describe both universal and specific traits of language and of languages. This knowledge can be applied to a broad spectrum of problems from bilingual education to artificial intelligence, second language learning to conflict resolution.
Now Doctoral Fellowship Positions in Linguistics are available at Tulane University.
Requirements
The doctoral program in linguistics seeks excellent students whose interests are related to the strengths of the Linguistics Program. The program only grants stipends to qualified students planning to study for the Ph.D. degree on a full-time basis. We accept students who have a B.A. (or equivalent), as well as students with advanced degrees in linguistics (M.A. or equivalent). If you are applying as a student with a M.A., you may transfer a maximum of 24 hours of appropriate coursework towards the Ph.D. A Master's degree may be earned during progress to the Ph.D. degree.
Please apply on-line by filling out the online graduate application form. The deadline for applications for admission and financial aid is February 1, 2010, for the academic year beginning in August 2010. In addition to the online application form, you are also required to submit university transcripts, scores from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), and, for non-native speakers of English, scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). It is your responsibility to take these examinations in time for the scores to reach us by the application deadline. This generally means that you will need to take these exams by December of the year preceding application at the latest. You must also arrange for three letters of recommendation from relevant faculty at your current or prior institutions who know your work. It is best to solicit letters from professors with whom you have studied linguistics, but letters from faculty in related disciplines are also useful. In addition, in order to get more acquainted with you and your academic interests, please include in your application materials a Linguistics term paper or a chapter of a thesis that you have written. The deadline for all application materials is February 1 of the calendar year you wish to begin studies.
Value of the fellowship
Students admitted to the Ph.D. program in linguistics are generally offered financial support in the form of a full fellowship. This fellowship includes tuition waivers and a stipend for living expenses. Contingent on satisfactory progress toward the degree, fellowships are renewed annually for a total of four years of funding. The stipend is projected to be approximately $20,000 per academic year. Also included is a full-tuition scholarship currently valued at $39,100.
If you do find that you need to supplement your stipend, however, you must get approval from the graduate adviser. Full-time students, whether receiving stipend support or not, may not accept paid employment in excess of 20 hours per week.
Course Work
As a graduate student in linguistics, you are required to complete 48 hours of course work before advancement to candidacy, which will include at least one course drawn from each of the following categories:
1.Acoustic phonetics
2.Phonology, morphology
3.Syntax
4.Language variation and change (for instance, sociolinguistics, historical, dialectology, or bilingualism)
5.Semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, or discourse
6.A non-IndoEuropean language other than your native language (Note that this requirement can be satisfied by one of the Less Commonly Taught Languages offered at the 100 level, which will be covered by the tuition waiver as long as you are a full-time student, but a course below the 600 level cannot count towards graduate credit.)
Language Requirement
In addition to your course work, you must also show competency in a language other than your native language. You should meet with the graduate adviser to discuss your proposed language and your plan for fulfilling the requirement. This requirement must be filled before advancement to candidacy.
If your native language is not English, you can use English to satisfy this requirement.
For everyone else, competence can be demonstrated by (i) two semesters of language instruction at the junior level, or (ii) a translation exam.
Qualifying Examination
At the beginning of your sixth semester, ideally in January, you will take a written qualifying exam over general linguistics and the student's special field, to be administered by the program. You may petition the program to substitute two research papers for the qualifying exam.
Dissertation Prospectus
By about the end of the sixth semester, you should form your dissertation committee. It must consist of at least three tenured or tenure-track Tulane faculty members. Your committee may have additional members as well, but this is not required.
Your first task with the dissertation committee is to write a research paper, called the dissertation prospectus. The prospectus should consist of a substantial dissertation proposal and a comprehensive bibliography. It may be based on a grant proposal to an external funding agency, particularly in the case of proposed fieldwork. The work described in the prospectus should lead naturally into your dissertation. The prospectus should contain a statement of the topic area of your proposed dissertation project, a problem statement, a statement of the theoretical orientation and methodology, and a comprehensive bibliography. Work out the specific details of your prospectus with the members of your dissertation committee
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Advancement to Candidacy
After you have passed your qualifying examination, your language requirement and your dissertation committee has approved your prospectus, you will apply for Candidacy for the Ph.D. University policy requires that you advance to candidacy before the beginning of your ninth semester of study at Tulane. It is your responsibility to ensure that you advance by this deadline. You are always welcome to advance earlier, as long as you have met the above requirements. Once you have advanced, you are considered 'ABD' (All But Dissertation). Application for some research grants requires this status.
Fieldwork
You may find it necessary to conduct fieldwork before writing your dissertation. In order to do so, you may interrupt your fellowship for a year. It is expected that you will pursue outside funding in order to support yourself and your fieldwork during this time. If your research does not require you to absent yourself in order to pursue fieldwork, you may continue directly to writing your dissertation.
Writing, filing, and defending the dissertation
Following advancement to candidacy, your fellowship allows you a year of support for you to work full time toward the completion of the dissertation, with an interruption of one year to conduct fieldwork as mentioned in the previous paragraph. Students generally find writing a dissertation to be a challenging and rewarding process. However, it is also an inherently stressful activity. For this reason, you should meet regularly with the members of your committee at every stage of your project, and keep in touch with them about data collection and writing. And finally, remember that all of the faculty members have also written a dissertation (and likely supervised a number of them too), and are happy to discuss any issues that come up for you.
Application deadline: 1 Febuary 2010
CONTACT
Tulane University
Linguistics
1326 Audubon Street
New Orleans, LA 70118
504-862-3046
ling@tulane.edu
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