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The University of Rochester's MA program equips students with comprehensive training across fundamental linguistics disciplines, covering: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics.
Specialized upper-level courses offer focused study opportunities in specific linguistic domains, such as: Theoretical/formal linguistics: laboratory phonetics/phonology, syntactic theory, semantic analysis, formal pragmatics Experimental/empirical approaches: experimental phonetics, syntactic experimentation, empirical semantics/pragmatics, corpus analysis, computational semantics Field linguistics: documentation techniques, descriptive field methods This linguistics MA program readies graduates for doctoral studies in linguistics or adjacent fields, as well as careers in education or various industries.
The University of Rochester's Linguistics Department fosters active research collaboration and prioritizes graduate student involvement in scholarly work. MA candidates collaborate directly with faculty to cultivate their research specialties while contributing to ongoing faculty-led investigations. For current departmental research initiatives