Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Linguistics

University of Alberta

The PhD program in our Department requires the completion of 18 credits (6 courses) of coursework, selected by students in conjunction with their Supervisor, plus two additional courses (Ling 693-Generals Papers I, and Ling 694-Generals Papers II). Coursework is followed by writing a dissertation prospectus, and an oral doctoral candidacy examination. The next step is writing and defending the doctoral dissertation. The doctoral degree is ideally completed in 4 years, with coursework done in the first year, doctoral candidacy completed in the second and third years, and the dissertation written and defended in the fourth year. The Department of Linguistics offers graduate programs in linguistics leading to the degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy.The Department supports research in experimental phonetics and phonology psycholinguistics quantitative linguistics corpus linguistics cognitive linguistics language acquisition and bilingualism field linguistics and language documentation typology and language variation.

Faculty of Arts