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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m-7203661421621917392m-5645605261726012579m5426018366349455543e">The Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University invites applications for fully funded graduate fellowships for doctoral study in linguistics and interdisciplinary
 approaches to the science of language. The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce new faculty and new opportunities for student research and training in the areas of sociolinguistics, laboratory phonology and prosody, which complement existing strengths
 in the study of grammar, meaning, sound structure, language processing and computational linguistics. Both within and beyond the Linguistics Department, Northwestern has a vibrant community of researchers actively working on a wide variety of issues in language
 structure and processing, utilizing formal, experimental, corpus and computational methods and diverse populations and languages.
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<span class="m-7203661421621917392m-5645605261726012579m5426018366349455543e">Research areas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Structure of linguistic systems within and across levels: Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Morphology, Phonology, Phonetics<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
Perception, production and acquisition of first and second languages <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
Dynamics of language: diachronic change; experience-related plasticity<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
Prosody in speech production and perception across languages<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="color:windowtext">Social meaning of linguistic variation and change</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m-7203661421621917392m-5645605261726012579m5426018366349455543e">Methods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Statistical modeling; probabilistic approaches to language structure and processing<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
Formal/mathematical theories of linguistic systems<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
Experimental studies of language; psycholinguistics<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
Acoustic phonetics and speech perception<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
Machine learning and natural language processing; corpus analysis<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">
Sociolinguistic fieldwork<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m-7203661421621917392m-5645605261726012579m5426018366349455543e">Populations
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Mono- and multilingual<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Adults across the lifespan <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Acquired and developmental disorders <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span class="m-7203661421621917392m-5645605261726012579m5426018366349455543e">For more information on graduate study, research, and the application process, visit us online:</span><br>
<a href="http://www.linguistics.northwestern.edu/programs/graduate.html" target="_blank">http://www.linguistics.northwestern.edu/programs/graduate.html
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