The MA in linguistics degree provides training in the primary areas of the field related to speech sounds, sentence structure, meaning, and psycholingusitics, advanced training in field linguistics and documentary linguistics, experimental linguistics, corpus linguistics, and in second language acquisition, as well as experience in presenting original research in professional venues. Students will pursue and develop in-depth expertise in at least one area of specialization. The Department of Linguistics & TESOL seeks to deepen our understanding of language by examining how it is represented, used, and processed. Our department works toward this goal through research and teaching in theoretical linguistics, focusing on phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics, as well as the interfaces among these domains of inquiry. In order to explore questions in these areas, we use multiple methodsincluding field methods, corpus-based methods, and experimental research methodsto collect and analyze data from a wide range of the world's languages and from both native and non-native speakers of these languages.