
Linguistics

The Graduate Center’s Linguistics program draws on the resources of New York City and of its great public university to help students develop expertise in the one of world’s most exciting fields.
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Ph.D. in Linguistics
Full-time
M.A. in General Linguistics
Full-time/Part-time
M.A. in Computational Linguistics
Full-time/Part-time
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December 5 (fall enrollment)
Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center
Our Ph.D. and M.A. programs ready students for opportunities in academia, private industry, public service, and more.
We offer coursework, laboratory experience, and research supervision in theoretical, experimental, descriptive, and applied linguistics. Our students master the discipline of linguistics in its broadest sense, acquire knowledge of a specialized area, and carry out independent research.

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Focus on Research
Students engage in research projects that interest them with guidance from chosen faculty advisers, who are recognized experts in their fields. Students also have the opportunity to participate in research laboratories and institutes including the Computational Lab, the CSI-CUNY Speech Laboratory, the Second Language Acquisition Lab, the Speech Lab, the Speech Production Laboratory, the Speech Acoustic and Perception Laboratory, the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society, and the Endangered Language Initiative.
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Interdisciplinary Study
Interdisciplinary work is common among our students and faculty. Many faculty and students complement their linguistics teaching and study with work in anthropology, computer science, language studies, speech and hearing science, and urban education. The Graduate Center is also a member of the Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium, which allows matriculated Graduate Center doctoral students to pursue related study at other members institutions, including Columbia University and NYU.
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Exploring Linguistics in NYC
New York City is one of the most linguistically diverse places on earth. Our program encourages students to focus their research on the under-described and threatened languages within the city as well as beyond it. Students can also take advantage of New York’s rich resources for research and academic exploration, from the New York Public Library to the wide variety of archives and collections across the city.
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Prof. Cece Cutler co-organized a seminar on multilingual, multilectal, and multiscriptal writing at the Inter University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 20-24, 2022. She gave a talk entitled "Spelling norms and orality: writing the New York City Accent on YouTube".
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Prof. Cutler co-organized a panel on language activism
Prof. Cutler co-organized a panel on language activism at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 24 in Ghent, Belgium, July 13-16, 2022 . She will give a talk entitled "Labelling ethnolects: challenges and potentials in light of the “principle of error correction”.
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Prof. Kyle Gorman: Seminar and Workshop
Prof. Kyle Gorman will be giving a NL seminar at the Information Sciences Institute at University of Southern California on June 23, 2022, titled, “Weighted Finite-State Transducers: The Later Years”.
Prof. Gorman will also be teaching a linguistics workshop at NASSLLI 2022, June 18-24 at the University of Southern California, hosted by USC: https://ml-la.github.io/nasslli2022/index.html.
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Congratulations to our 2021-2022 graduates!
PhD: Boram Kim, Susana Huidobro, Chaya Nove, SeJin Oh, and Jennifer Seale
MA: Kelsey Bourque, Matthew Kadish, Jonathan I. Manczur, Lara Novic, William Oliver, Yuying Ren, Yulia Spektor, Natalia Tyulina, and Brynne Wilkinson
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