Department of Linguistics & Cognitive Science

The Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware is both a Ph.D. granting department of linguistics and the home of cognitive science at the University of Delaware. It is one of the few linguistics departments with a generative orientation that emphasizes field work and the study and documentation of endangered and under-described languages. The department also combines innovative theoretical work in linguistics with cutting edge research in language acquisition, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics.

The department has a strong interest in the role of language and linguistics in Cognitive Science, but interests of the faculty extend beyond language to such topics as the philosophy of mind and spatial cognition. The department offers an interdisciplinary B.S. degree in Cognitive Science with three tracks: Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Speech Pathology, and a M.A. degree in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. An unusual feature of the program is our combined B.S. and M.A. option, which provides a unified program leading, upon graduation, to the award of a B.S. in Cognitive Science and a M.A. degree in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. 

The department's PhD program in Linguistics ranks among the top Linguistics PhD programs in the the United States according to the recent survey results released by the National Research Council. Please read the department's response and the UDaily article. 

Professor Robin Andreasen is part of the team receiving a funding award from the President’s Diversity Initiative!

05/08/2012

Dr. Robin Andresen, along with Pam Cook and Heather Doty, has been awarded funding from the President’s Diversity Initiative. Their project will extend the work of their NSF-funded ADVANCE grant to improve the climate for underrepresented faculty in STEM departments (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). Sam Gaertner, Department of Psychology, a national leader in the study of unintended bias, is also collaborating on this project. Read the UDaily article here!

Linguistics PhD candidate Anne Peng receives Fulbright research grant! UDaily highlights this accomplishment!

05/01/2012

 PhD candidate Anne Peng has received a U.S. Student Fulbright research grant for 2012-2013 to Indonesia. Her goal is to collect and transcribe naturalistic recordings of Indonesian Teochew, an unstudied
Chinese language spoken by the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia. The naturalistic data will allow her to further examine the syntax of Indonesian Teochew which has been influenced by the surrounding unrelated Malay languages. The UDaily article is here.

Anne Peng is advised by Dr. Peter Cole.

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