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Subject: Postgraduate Study in Linguistics
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                            UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

                           DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS

                              POSTGRADUATE STUDY

   About the Department
   --------------------
   The  Department of Linguistics is part of Edinburgh University's thriving
   research community in the areas related to  speech  and  language.    The
   department  includes  within it the Centre for Speech Technology Research
   and maintains broad collaborations with the Centre for Cognitive Science,
   with  which it shares some postgraduate teaching, the Human Communication
   Research Centre, in which its staff and  students  participate,  and  the
   Department  of  Applied  Linguistics.    The  Department  of  Linguistics
   conducts a full programme of undergraduate teaching  and  an  MSc  course
   which  is described below, as well as supervising PhD students.  Research
   facilities   include   extensive   computing   systems,   phonetics   and
   psycholinguistics  laboratories,  and major library holdings. A number of
   research projects are held in the department  or  jointly  with  CSTR  or
   HCRC.

   PhD in Linguistics
   ------------------
   The  department  accepts  qualified  students  to do PhD research in both
   purely linguistic and interdisciplinary areas.  PhD research is  expected
   to  be  complete  in  four  years  or less.  During the initial year, PhD
   students may follow  components  of  the  MSc  course,  and  training  is
   available  in  important  research  skills.   Applicants should have good
   Honours degrees (or the equivalent) in linguistics or any  related  area.
   The  Department is eligible for ESRC and British Academy Studentships (UK
   and EC applicants).  Support for non-EC applicants may also be available.

   MSc Programme Speech and Language Processing
   --------------------------------------------
   A one year course assessed by essays and dissertation, the MSc is  taught
   within the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Speech Technology
   Research.  The programme includes training  in  basic  computing  skills,
   PROLOG,  phonetics,  phonology,  syntax,  formal  language theory, formal
   semantics,  pragmatics   and   discourse   analysis,   psycholinguistics,
   statistics   and   experimental   design,   speech  signal  analysis  and
   processing, automatic speech  recognition  and  synthesis,  computational
   linguistics, and machine translation.  Application has been made to EPSRC
   to continue a quota of advanced course studentships,  for  which  British
   and  other EC residents with Honours degrees or equivalent experience are
   eligible.

   Academic teaching staff
   -----------------------
   Ronnie Cann        formal  semantics  of  natural  languages,  functional
                      categories in syntax; Indo-European languages

   Ellen Gurman Bard  psycholinguistics, perception and production of speech
                      in dialogue, linguistic intuitions

   Caroline Heycock   formal syntax; Japanese, German

   James Hurford      evolution  of  language,  syntax  and   semantics   in
                      automatic speech recognition; Arabic

   Stephen Isard      dialogue   structure,   intonation,  automatic  speech
                      synthesis and recognition

   Michael Johnson    speech technology, intonation, stuttering

   Louise Kelly       psycholinguistics,   acquired   language    disorders;
                      Spanish

   D. Robert Ladd     prosody,  phonological  theory,  intonation  in speech
                      synthesis; Romanian

   Jim Miller         spoken and  written  language,  non-standard  English;
                      tense aspect, case; Russian, Bulgarian

   Alice Turk         experimental   articulatory  and  acoustic  phonetics,
                      speech   perception,   prosody,    phonology/phonetics
                      interface


               APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: 10 March for October entry

                FOR MORE INFORMATION AND APPLICATION FORMS:

             contact Mrs.  Ethel Jack, Department of Linguistics,
                           University of Edinburgh,
           Adam Ferguson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LL
              (Tel: (+44)131-650-3961; E-mail ethel@ling.ed.ac.uk ).

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