Northwestern’s Linguistics PhD unites generative theory, sociophonetics, psycholinguistics, and NLP. Doctoral students record endangered Shabo speakers, run MEG experiments on prosody processing, and train transformer models to detect code-switch points. Interdisciplinary ties to cognitive science and CS push graduates toward academic, tech-NLP, and forensic-linguistics careers.
Build a neural parser for polysynthetic morphology in Yupik
Analyze vowel chain shifts in Chicago English using acoustic clustering
Quantify gesture-speech synchrony with motion-capture corpora
Conduct ERP study on incremental parsing of garden-path sentences
Develop computational metrics for politeness strategies in online forums
Document tonal-sandhi patterns in under-described Chinese dialects
Investigate prosodic focus marking in bilingual Spanish-English discourse
Model semantic change trajectories with diachronic word embeddings
Create a code-switch detection dataset for low-resource language pairs
Test comprehension impacts of gender-inclusive pronouns via eye-tracking
Study lexical access in heritage speakers under emotional priming
Prototype an ASR system for endangered language revitalization classrooms
Evaluate toddler phonotactic learning in artificial-language experiments
Research courtroom interpreter accuracy with sociophonetic measures
Write an ethics guide for crowdsourcing speech data in Indigenous communities
Decode language systems and cognition with Northwestern’s Linguistics PhD.
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