UMD’s PhD in Linguistics offers theoretical and experimental training in syntax, phonology, semantics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics. Students conduct research on language acquisition, language processing, and cross-linguistic variation using advanced tools and corpora.
ERP study on sentence processing in second language learners
Acoustic phonetic analysis of tonal contrasts in West African languages
Modeling agreement phenomena in minimalist syntax frameworks
Computational modeling of child vocabulary acquisition trajectories
Cross-linguistic study of interrogative clause formation
Phonological analysis of loanword adaptation in bilingual communities
Eye-tracking study on real-time parsing of garden-path sentences
Corpus-based analysis of verb subcategorization frames in English
Dissertation on semantic change in gendered pronouns over time
Study of syntactic priming effects in multilingual speakers
Lexical decision tasks for morphologically rich languages
Analysis of prosody in emotional speech using speech corpora
AI-assisted parsing tools for under-documented languages
Study on pragmatics and implicature comprehension in children
Research on sentence comprehension deficits in aphasia patients
Modeling language evolution using agent-based simulations
Acoustic cues to lexical stress in English dialects
Syntax-semantics interface analysis of negation scope ambiguity
Bilingual code-switching analysis using sociolinguistic interviews
Psycholinguistic study on word learning under noisy input conditions
Explore how language is structured, acquired, and processed through cognitive and computational research in UMD’s Linguistics PhD.
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