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FOCUS--PAST AND PRESENT
From its beginning in 1969, the University of Florida Linguistics Program has provided instruction in the core areas of phonology, morphology, and syntax, and in pragmatics and semantics as well. Students can now look forward to additional opportunities to do research in the areas of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. We also provide training in teaching English as a second or foreign language through our TESL Certificate.(updated 2 December 1999 by Tman)GRADUATE FACULTY 1990-2000Director: M. Nelson. Graduate Coordinator: R.M. Thompson. Professors: W.S. Brown, Jr.; A.F. Burns; J. Casagrande; C.C. Chu; H. Der-Houssikian; M.J. Hardman; N.N. Markel; K.M. McCarthy; D.G. Miller; M. Nelson; D.A. Pharies. Associate Professors: D. Boxer; G. Hatav; P.A. Kotey; M. Mohammad; W.J.Sullivan III; R.M. Thompson, A. Wehmeyer; A. Wyatt-Brown. Assistant Professors: R. Torres-Cacoullos; R. Wayland, C.R. Wiltshire.
DEGREES
The University of Florida Linguistics Program offers four graduate degrees: the non-thesis M.A., the M.A. with thesis, the M.A.T. (Master's degree in Teaching), and the Ph.D. In addition to M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, the Linguistics Program offers a graduate certificate in teaching English as a second language (TESL). As part of its service to the University community, Linguistics also offers three programs especially designed to suit the needs of international students: the English Language Institute (ELI), the Scholarly Writing Program (SW), and the Academic Spoken English Program (ASE).
RESOURCES
Resources available to graduate students include the Humanities/Social Sciences Library, located in Library West, next to Anderson Hall, the current home of the Linguistics Program; the laboratory facilities of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Communication Processes (IASCAP) and of the Language Learning Center in Turlington Hall; and access to facilities of the Center for Instructional and Research Computing Activities (CIRCA).
ADMISSIONStudents who have not earned an undergraduate degree in linguistics may be admitted to the Graduate Program. However, if they have never had classes in introductory linguistics, phonetic transcription, and the advanced study of the grammar of a language, they may be required to enroll first as a post baccalaureate student to make up their deficiencies. Students who have had previous course work in linguistics should consult the Graduate Coordinator to determine the extent to which credits already earned may fulfill UF requirements. University application materials are available on-line.
FINANCIAL AIDA number of fellowships are available to incoming students. They include Minority Fellowships, made available by the University of Florida Minority Program, which can provide up to two years' support for Master's and three years' support for Ph.D. candidates; Presidential fellowships; Graduate Council Fellowships; and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences fellowships. Information may be found in the twelfth edition of Graduate and Post Doctoral Support, available in the university library, and on the Internet. The Internet address is http://www.ortge.ufl.edu. January submissions are the rule.
Students who have completed their qualifying exams and begun writing their dissertations may also apply for College Dissertation Fellowships, which carry $3,000 stipends plus tuition waivers for one term.
Graduate Assistantships are also available in limited numbers, with eligibility determined by the Program's Student Employment Committee, which ranks applicants with respect to individual qualifications and records of academic performance. Rates of compensation for 1/2 time employment are subject to increments determined from year to year by the results of collective bargaining. In addition to general education courses for the Linguistics Program, Teaching Assistants may be assigned to teach in ELI, ASE, and SW Programs. Applicants fluent in such languages as Arabic, Aymara, Chinese, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Shona, Spanish, and Swahili may also find opportunities to teach in departments related to Linguistics.For detailed information on requirements for admission and on financial aid, please contact Linguistics by telephone (352) 392-0639; fax (352) 392-8480; mail addressed to Linguistics, P.O. Box 115454, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-5454; or e-mail to Professor Roger Thompson rthompso@english.ufl.edu. Application forms are available on-line. For detailed information on the English Language Institute (intensive English for non-native speakers) please check their homepage, call (352) 392-3354, fax (352) 392-3744, or e-mail eli@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu.
LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTSIt is assumed that students entering the graduate program will have acquired working knowledge of a second language, with "working knowledge" defined as equivalent to competence acquired in two years of formal study. This proficiency may be acquired through course work or by living in the country where the language is spoken. Students pursuing the doctorate in linguistics should also plan to include courses in at least one non-European language and in the structure of a non-Western language. Because of restrictions on graduate students enrolling in undergraduate classes, it is best if these classes are taken before enrolling in graduate school, though accommodations can be made.
EXAMINATIONS
In addition to examinations required as part of course work, further examinations at three levels are regularly offered. As presently constituted, the COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION, required of students working toward either the thesis, non-thesis M.A., or the M.A.T, consists of three parts, with each part focusing on a specific core area -- phonology, morphology, or syntax. The comprehensive examinations, normally offered twice a year in the fall and the spring, are to be taken at the earliest opportunity after students have completed LIN 6323: Phonology, LIN 6402: Morphology, and LIN 6501: Syntax.
Successfully passing the QUALIFYING EXAMINATION, the form of which is determined by the student's supervising committee, advances the student to candidacy for the doctorate.
Formal, ORAL DEFENSES of M.A. theses, non-thesis papers, and Ph.D. dissertations are also required at the end of the degree program.
COURSE OFFERINGS(Before you register, be sure to check the course listing for next semester. Credit may also be earned through Individual Study, Supervised Research, Special Topics, Supervised Teaching, and Research for Master's Thesis and Doctoral Dissertation. Students are encouraged, with the advice of the Graduate Coordinator and their own advisors, to choose graduate courses offered by other departments and administrative units that may serve individual research interests.)
LIN 6084 -- Introduction to Graduate Research (3) Scholarly and scientific approaches to study of linguistics. Scientific method, theory development, data processing, scholarly writing, and structure of research proposals.
Working from theoretical and applied perspectives, phonology and phonetics focus on the sounds of language. Courses included in this area provide opportunity to gather, analyze, and account for data within varying theoretical matrices.
LIN 5203 -- Forensic Phonetics (3) Analysis of stored speech, surveillance, recording/decoding of speech, authentication of tape recordings, speaker identification, stress identification, stress analysis, and quantitative analysis of language.LIN 6208 -- Phonetics for Linguists (3) Understanding of issues in experimental phonetics and introduction of research techniques involved in the acoustic, physiological, and perceptual study of speech.
LIN 6323 -- Phonology (3) Prereq: LIN 3201. Phonemics, syllabic and prosodic phenomena, neutralization, distinctive features, morphophonemic alternation, phonological systems and processes. Terminology and notational conventions of generative phonology. Problems from a variety of languages.
LIN 6341 -- Issues in Phonology (3) Prereq: LIN 6323. Technical articles from a variety of twentieth-century schools, including American and European structuralism, generative and stratificational phonology, natural and metric-autosegmental phonology. Examples and problems from a variety of languages.
LIN 7342 -- Seminar in Phonology (3; max: 9) Possible topics: the syllable, advanced topics in autosegmental and metrical phonology, plus selections of the latest work in phonological thinking.
Morphology focuses on word structure. Beginning with analysis of the words of specific languages, it introduces analytical procedures involved in the composition and decomposition of words, procedures which themselves entail cognitive issues and also involve questions of interface with other domains of language -- including phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse.
LIN 6402 -- Morphology (3) Prereq: LIN 3460. Word structure, derivation and inflection. The position of morphology in a grammar, the relationship between morphology and the rest of the grammar, typology, cultural and conceptual categories, predictions of various theories of morphology. Examples and problems from a variety of languages.LIN 6410 -- Issues in Morphology (3) Prereq: LIN 6402. Technical articles from a variety of twentieth-century schools. Prominent inquiries include the place of morphology in grammar, its relationship to other components, and the possibility of constructing a unified theory of morphology.
Syntax focuses on basic structures of sentences, giving attention to data gathered from various languages of the world and using analytical procedures derived from the research of current investigators using various methods of analysis.
LIN 6501 -- Syntax (3) Prereq: LIN 3460. In-depth consideration of structures of sentences, clauses, and phrases (heads, complements, specifiers, and modifiers); grammatical relations; sememic roles; case, concord, and government; anaphora; universals; typology. Issues include autonomy, modularity, X-bar theory, the nature of syntactic rules, underlying and surface structures. Examples and problems from a variety of languages.
LIN 6520 -- Issues in Syntax (3) Prereq: LIN 6501. Technical articles by syntacticians from a variety of twentieth-century schools, including generative semantics, relational grammar, lexical-functional grammar, various process and discourse models, EST, and X-bar theory.
LIN 6562 -- Discourse Grammar (3) Prereq: 6501. Recent developments in study of relationships between sentence grammar and discourse. Subject and theme, relativization and subordination, pronoun and anaphora, transitivity, tense and aspect, information structure, and discourse basis for grammatical categories. Synthesis of topics into systematic framework.
LIN 6571 -- Structure of a Specific Language (3) Prereq: introductory linguistics course. Linguistic examination of Aymara, Armenian, Polish, Quechua, Sanskrit, Tamil, etc.
LIN 7580 -- Seminar in Syntax/Semantics (3; max: 9) Possible topics: discourse analysis, pragmatics, cultural and universal concepts, advanced topics in government and binding theory, logic and linguistics, and the lexicon in linguistic theory.
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Historical perspectives courses present models for the analysis of language development, provide opportunity for analyzing data from the development of particular languages of the world, and give an overview of the history of linguistics itself.
LIN 6128 -- Historical Linguistics (3) Prereq: LIN 6323, 6501. Principles and methods of historical and comparative linguistics, development of competing models for language change and linguistic relatedness. Examples and problems from a broad spectrum of languages.
LIN 6129 -- Issues in Historical Linguistics (3) Prereq: LIN 6341, 6520, 6128. Advanced diachronic linguistics. The mutual interdependence of diachronic and synchronic analyses of language.
LIN 7149 -- Seminar in Language Change (3; max:9) Possible topics include problems in diachronic syntax; comparative reconstruction; comparative/historical treatment of a language or family (Semitic, Indo-European, Bantu, etc.)
LIN 7118 -- History of Linguistics (3) Prereq: LIN 6323, 6501. The history of accounting for language data as evidenced by grammar-writing from Panini to the twentieth century, with primary focus on the development of linguistic thought in Europe and America.
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Sociolinguistics focuses on the description of language as it is used in the real world. It assumes than language is fundamental in the organization and understanding of everyday interactions, both from individual and societal perspectives.LIN 5657 -- Gender and Language (3) Prereq: LIN 3010. Language in the construction of cultural, sex, and gender roles within a culture. A focal point is the grammaticalization of gender in languages of the world, including non-Indo-European languages.
LIN 6165 -- Field Methods (3) Anthropological linguistic field methods provide opportunities to discover structure in language by listening to and interacting with a native speaker of a language you do know know through processes that involve learning to construct questions that leadve answers open, make and test analyses, and write up discoveries.
LIN 6601 -- Sociolinguistics (3) Major approaches to language in context: ethnographic, sociological, linguistic. Applications of sociolinguistics to applied linguistics, social sciences, and education. Collection and analysis of data.
LIN 6622 -- Bilingualism (3) Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism, with implications for education.
LIN 7641 -- Seminar in Language Variation (3) Possible topics include variation theory, conversational interaction, language contact, bilingualism, pidgins and Creoles.APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Applied Linguistics includes courses in the teaching of English as a Second Language: materials and techniques in TESL; curriculum development in TESL; second language acquisition; nerolinguistics; sociolinguistics; composition theory; modern English structure, language testing. Research in the applied linguistics area may also involve study of issues in bilingualism, second language discourse, and cross-cultural language use.ENC 6720 -- Introduction to Writing Theory and Research (3) Theoretical background to writing theory, research, and pedagogy.
LIN 5657 -- Gender and Language (3) Prereq: LIN 3010. Language in the construction of cultural, sex, and gender roles within a culture. Focus on the grammaticalization of gender in languages of the world, including non-Indo-European languages, and of the interactions of these grammatical structures with gender stereotypes. Consequences for linguistic science.
LIN 5741 -- Applied English Grammar (3) English phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, including historical analysis of irregularities in English and descriptions of dialect features.
LIN 6339 -- Seminar: Applied Phonology (3) Prereq: SPA 5204. Study of the application of phonological theory in speech-language pathology, audiology, and speech science.
LIN 6601 -- Sociolinguistics (3) Prereq: LIN 6323. Major approaches to language in context: ethnographic, sociological, linguistic. Applications of sociolinguistics to applied linguistics, social sciences, and education. Collection and analysis of data.LIN 6619 -- American Social Dialects (3) Language variation, especially in relation to the ethnic and racial boundaries of American society.
LIN 6622 -- Bilingualism (3) Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism, with implications for education.LIN 6641 -- Psychological Linguistics (3) The scientific study of language as expressive behavior. Detailed examination of experimental research on the linguistic and paralinguistic correlates of personality.
LIN 6720 -- Second Language Acquisition (3) The neurolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic bases of second language acquisition in childhood and adulthood.
LIN 7641 -- Seminar in Language Variation (3; max:9) Possible topics include variation theory, conversational interaction, language contact, bilingualism, pidgins and Creoles.LIN 7709 -- Seminar in Neurolinguistics (3) Selected problems in linguistic theory and research, with emphasis on experimental analysis.
TSL 6371 -- Materials and Techniques for TESL I (3) Theories of TESL teaching methods and materials. Instruction in classroom materials. Observation of ESL classroom procedures.
TSL 6372 -- Materials and Techniques for TESL II (3) Prereq: TESL 6371. Continuation of TSL 6371. Instruction in designing courses and programs in ESL. Each student will be required to develop a sample ESL course.