Welcome to the Linguistics Department

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.

News

Prof. Ivano Caponigro has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and Prof. Amalia Arvaniti has been promoted to Full Professor. Congratulations to both!

Rodolfo Mata received the 2011 Helmut Esau Prize from the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) for the best student paper at the 2011 LASSO Annual Meeting: “Simplification of Subjunctive in the Spanish of the San Diego-Tijuana Border Area”. Congrats, R!

Welcome to Dr. Victoria Fossum, who is working with Roger Levy and colleagues as a post-doctoral fellow in the Computational Psycholinguistics Lab.

Welcome to Dr. Gracia Piñero who joins us as a visiting scholar from the Departamento de Filología Española de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. She will be working on metaphor in Spanish  and with John Moore on the Border Spanish Project.

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".

Colloquium

Mon. 2-4pm, AP&M 4301

Feb. 6, 2012
Daniel Büring (U. Wien)

April 2, 2012
Karen Jesney (USC)

April 30, 2012
Yael Sharvit (UCLA)

May 14, 2012
Sharon Hargus (U. of Washington)

CRL Talks

Center for Research in Language

Tues. 4pm CSB 280

Contact:

Department of Linguistics
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0108
Tel 858-822-2711
FAX 858-534-4789

Campus Location:

Applied Physics and Mathematics Building (AP&M)
Muir College Campus

Campus Directions