The Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies offers both a Master of Arts by Research and a Doctor of Philosophy by Research for interested students.
The graduate programme in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies is dedicated to producing postgraduates in linguistics who will be able to demonstrate expertise in one or more areas within the field. The successful graduates will also have proven themselves to be effective and creative researchers. To that end, requirements for the programme include both core courses and focused coursework, as well as a thesis (see below or click the tabs on the left for more details).
Our graduate programme is primarily oriented towards the PhD degree; and we envisage enrolling only few students solely for the Master's Degree. Because of this the Division will only consider applicants with a significant background in Linguistics.
In the first year of their PhD programme students are required to read a number of advanced course in Linguistics. These will provide the students with core knowledge and will train them in formulating research questions. The courses will be chosen from among the numerous courses offered at the postgraduate level and will be selected together with the supervisor and the postgraduate coordinator on the basis of student intake and the students’ research areas.
In the second and third years it is expected that the students will be conducting their field work and/or data collection and will be further enhancing their research skills. In the last year of the programme students will concentrate on writing up their thesis.
The Division is committed to developing the postgraduate students’ teaching skills alongside their research abilities. From the second year onwards students will be given the opportunity to assist in the teaching of courses run by the Division’s faculty members.
Available research areas include:
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Bilingualism and multilingualism
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Child language acquisition
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Chinese linguistics
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Chinese linguistics with a specific focus on Hokkien
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Computational lexicography
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Computational linguistics
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Contrastive grammar of English and Chinese
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Conversation analysis
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Descriptive linguistics
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First, second and heritage language acquisition
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HPSG
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Language acquisition in multilingual context
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Language and culture
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Language and gender
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Language attitudes
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Language and identity
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Language attrition and disorder
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Language contact and language change
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Language maintenance and shift
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Language planning and policy
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Languages of south Asia and mainland South East Asia
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Loanword phonology
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Machine translation
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Minority and endangered languages
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Morphology
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Neurolinguistics
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Phonetics and phonology
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Pragmatics
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Prosody
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Psycholinguistics
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Semantic and conceptual acquisition
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Semantics
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Syntax
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Tone and Intonation
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Typology
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Word sense disambiguation
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World Englishes
Interested students please contact the Division for more information on admission requirements.
The following links will give you more information on our graduate programme:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/HSS/divisions/Pages/GraduateProgrammesByResearch.aspx
Information on admission requirements, academic year, application procedures information on tuition fees can be found at the following links:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/Services/Academic/Pages/default.aspx
http://admissions.ntu.edu.sg/graduate/Pages/default.aspx