Linguistics
"Actually, thinking is most mysterious, and by far the greatest light upon it that we have is thrown by the study of language." -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
Link to: Linguistics Website
- The program offers an MA degree, an undergraduate option with an Anthropology, English or Language major, and a Certificate of Accomplishment in ESL.
- The Linguistics Program offers an interdisciplinary education to students. The central goal in linguistics is to study, understand, and describe the details of individual languages: the sounds used by individual languages and the make-up of words, phrases and sentences. The understanding of linguistic principles is applied to a variety of fields, including language teaching, language therapy, communication, speech synthesis, and language preservation.
- The Linguistics Program at the University of Montana is the only program that offers an MA in Linguistics in the state of Montana.
Graduate Student Daniel McCloy
Daniel McCloy
Research Mentor: Tony Mattina
Research Topic: Automated Adaptation Between Kiranti Languages
Daniel McCloy has just completed his master’s thesis, a project that explores the feasibility of automated adaptation (machine translation) between Kiranti languages of Nepal.
Graduate Student Mindy Mix
Mindy Mix
Research Mentor: Mizuki Miyashita
Research Topic: Dialectal verb contraction in Old English: an Optimality Theory Account.
Mindy Mix is focusing her research on Early English linguistics. She received an Outstanding Presentation Award at the 2006 Graduate Student-Faculty Research Conference at the University of Montana.
Undergraduate Student Noelle Richards
Noelle Richards
Research Mentor: Tony Mattina
Research Topic: Lillooet Dictionary Digitization
Noelle Richards has received an Undergraduate Research Award ($500 scholarship and $500 research-related expenses) to help T. Mattina scan and digitize Northern Interior Salish documents. She will work on the project Spring 07.
