UCL DIVISION OF PSYCHOLOGY AND LANGUAGE SCIENCES

You can see a recording of the talk given by Professor Noam Chomsky when he visited us in October 2011 at http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/events/2011/10/17/noam-chomsky-on-the-poverty-of-the-stimulus/.

The programme has the following obligatory components:

In addition, students follow the modules for the syntax pathway and, in consultation with the programme director, two further modules chosen from a range of options:

Syntax pathway

 Possible options (NB not all courses are taught every year):

• PLING150 Sociolinguistics
• PLING153 Psycholinguistics: General Processing
• PLING155 Animal Communication and Human Language
• PLING156 Language Acquisition
• PLING201 Pragmatic Theory
• PLING202 Philosophy of Language
• PLING203 Pragmatics and Cognition
• PLING204 Issues in Pragmatics
• PLING210 Semantic-Pragmatic Development
• PLING207 Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
  
• PLING211 Advanced Phonological Theory A
• PLING212 Current Issues in Phonology A
• PLING213 Advanced Phonological Theory B
• PLING214 Current Issues in Phonology B
• PLING222 Current Issues in Syntax
• PLING224 Readings in Syntax
• PLING300 Stuttering

Programme Director:Prof Ad Neeleman

Teaching staff (NB: staff may occasionally be absent for a term or more on research or other leave)

• Dr Klaus Abels
• Dr Richard Breheny
• Prof Robyn Carston
• Dr Bronwen Evans
• Prof John Harris
• Dr Nathan Klinedinst
• Prof Ad Neeleman
• Dr Andrew Nevins
• Dr Nausicaa Pouscoulous
• Dr Kriszta Szendroi
• Dr Hans van de Koot

In addition, we can call on the support of Teaching Fellows and Postgraduate Teaching Assistants.

Funding

Departmental Scholarships

AHRC Studentship

We anticipate that one AHRC Research Preparation Masters Studentship will be available for the MA/MRes Linguistics. Further information is available from http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/linguistics/ahrc_studentships_2012.

Philological Society bursaries

The Philological Society is pleased to offer a limited number of bursaries for students embarking on a postgraduate Masters programme in the areas of linguistics or philology. The intention is that the bursaries will make a contribution to maintaining and furthering the breadth and diversity of language-study in the UK by providing support for outstanding young scholars in the field.  Application forms with further details can be found on the Society's website: www.philsoc.org.uk

UCL Scholarships

Information on UCL Scholarships can be found at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/scholarships/scholarships/graduate/

Application

Entry Requirements

Deadline for Applications

Application Process

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The Open Day will be held on 4 July 2012 and will provide an opportunity to find out about the Masters and undergraduate programmes based in Chandler House. Further information is available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/students/prospective/open-days/ch-open-day-2012.