Sino-Tibetan linguistics encompasses the comprehensive study of a language family that includes Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages, characterised by a remarkable diversity in phonological, ...

Our M.A. is a flexible program of study that provides training in linguistics and/or cognitive science. Students may propose a customized program of advanced study that combines elements from either ...

Linguistics is a scientific subject, which means linguistics majors ask questions and test hypotheses about language. Students may focus on the role of language in society or how children and adults ...

Learning Goals Introductory Narrative Linguistics involves the scientific study of the nature and structure of human languages. The Brandeis Language and Linguistics major offers a dynamic approach to ...

In this article, the comparative method is used to reconstruct the segmental phonology of Pre-Bakairi from the two extant dialects of Bakairi, a Cariban language spoken in Central Brazil. The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the markedness model of SPE (Chomsky & Halle 1968), redundancy rules lose their ability to characterize regularities and must convert ...

As for my own methods of investigation, I do not really have any. The only method of investigation is to look hard at a serious problem and try to get some ideas as to what might be the explanation ...

The Ph.D. program in linguistics was established at the University of Delaware in 1985. Its mission is to provide students with the intellectual ability to understand, create, integrate and apply ...