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29 Best universities for Linguistics in Portugal

Updated: February 29, 2024

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Below is a list of best universities in Portugal ranked based on their research performance in Linguistics. A graph of 687K citations received by 62.2K academic papers made by 29 universities in Portugal was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

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1. University of Lisbon

For Linguistics

2. University of Porto

3. University of Coimbra

4. University of Minho

5. New University of Lisbon

6. University of Aveiro

7. Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon

8. University Institute of Lisbon

9. University of Beira Interior

10. University of the Algarve

11. Catholic University of Portugal

12. Polytechnic Institute of Porto

13. University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro

14. University of Evora

15. Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies

16. Polytechnic Institute of Leiria

17. Madeira University

18. Polytechnic Institute of Viseu

19. Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra

20. University of the Azores

21. Fernando Pessoa University

22. Superior Institute of Maia

23. Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco

24. Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave

25. Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo

26. Higher School of Nursing, Coimbra

27. European University - Lisbon

28. Polytechnic Institute of Beja

29. Piaget Institute

The best cities to study Linguistics in Portugal based on the number of universities and their ranks are Lisbon , Porto , Coimbra , and Braga .

Liberal Arts & Social Sciences subfields in Portugal

Presentation

The PhD in Linguistics offers conditions for students to:

• to deepen their knowledge and critical understanding of theoretical and methodological models of Linguistics and their application in diversified research contexts, including interdisciplinary contexts;
• to produce original research work, contributing to the development and dissemination of knowledge in the area of Linguistics at a national and international level.

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Associated Research Units

• Linguistics Research Centre of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CLUNL)

Useful Links

• Linguistics Department
• Doctoral Programme Regulations
• Doctoral Degree Centre
• Tuition fees
• Regulations on enrolment, tuition, fees and charges

Areas Of expertise

• Lexicology, Lexicography, Terminology
• Text and Discourse Linguistics
• Linguistics and Language Teaching
• General linguistics
• Historical Linguistics
• Portuguese Linguistics
• Psycholinguistics
• Sociolinguistics

Curricular structure

Duration: 8 semesters. Total Credits: 240 credits (60 in curricular units + 180 in the non-taught component).

Modalities of non-taught component: Thesis.

Number of credits on a free-choice basis: 10 credits. The free-choice seminar may be chosen from among the postgraduate courses offered at NOVA FCSH; by other departments of the Nova University of Lisbon, or by other Portuguese or foreign higher education institutions, by agreement or protocol.

The degree of Doctor corresponds to level 8 of the NQF/EQF - National Qualifications Framework/European Qualifications Framework.

Coordination

Maria Antónia Coutinho

Language Sciences Department

Associate Professor (with Habilitation)

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The Institute

The Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa (ICLP), “Institute of Portuguese Language and  Culture”, is a teaching and research division in the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, the largest Portuguese university following the recent merge with the Classic University and the Technical University.

ANNUAL COURSE

The Portuguese as a Foreign Language courses (PFL) have been organized by the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon since 1934. In the last few years, more than 40,000 students from the world over have attended these courses.

The project LeCIEPLE aims at building a Portuguese Learner Corpus (Portuguese as a foreign Language / Second Language - PFL/L2) which may provide support to research, teachers' training and didactics. This resource also intends to establish the linguistic profile of PFL/L2 learners, which can be used both in teaching and in assessing competences.

The ICLP offers a Portuguese as a Foreign Language course to foreign students in the Erasmus programme.

WORK WITH US

If you would like to work with us, please send to ICLP ([email protected]) the documents indicated in the following file.

Director and Scientific Board

Anabela Gonçalves

Anabela Gonçalves is a Professor at the Departamento de Linguística Geral e Românica da Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, where she has been teaching since 1988, and a researcher in the Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa (CLUL). She is also the director of the Program in Translation and Interpretation and associate editor of Journal of Portuguese Linguistics. She holds a Master’s and a PhD degree in Linguistics (specifically, syntax), granted by the University of Lisbon in 1992 (Faculdade de Letras) and 2000, respectively. In 2016, she got her Agregação (Habilitation) in Linguistics (Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa).

She conducts her research mainly in the area of comparative syntax. Over the last years, she has incorporated results of her research into the areas of syntax acquisition, clinical linguistics, educational linguistics and linguistics applied to translation. She has been collaborating with speech therapists, with the purpose of building language assessment instruments, and with high school teachers of Portuguese, with the aim of creating linguistic tools for teaching. She is author and co-author of several papers, book chapters and books.

She has supervised several Master’s dissertations and PhD theses in linguistics (more specifically, on syntax), and Master’s dissertations in translation.

Ana Lúcia Santos

Language Sciences representative

Ana Lúcia Santos is an Associate Professor at Departamento de Linguística Geral e Românica da Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, where she teaches since 2001. She is also a researcher at Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa (CLUL). She completed a PhD on the acquisition of VP ellipsis in Portuguese in 2006 (the dissertation was published by John Benjamins, in 2009). Since then, she has developed different research work in the field of acquisition, mostly on monolingual acquisition, but considering also bilingual and L2 acquisition. She has also developed work on impaired language development. She has published several papers and books, including textbooks.

Cristina Sobral

Literature, art and culture representative.

Cristina Sobral, PhD in Portuguese Literature, specializes in Medieval Literature and Culture and Textual Criticism, areas in which has taught in undergraduate and postgraduate.

Director of Portuguese Studies course since 2011. Researcher at the Centre for Linguistics of UL, she prepares philologic editions of ancient texts and modern authors as Camilo Castelo Branco and Eça de Queirós. She coordinates the project  Corpus hagiographic in Portuguese up to 1525  and has published several studies on the literary  corpus  in medieval Portuguese. Books published:

Eça de Queirós, A Ilustre Casa de Ramires. Manuscrito Autógrafo , edição genética por C. Sobral, M.I. Rocheta e I. Fialho, Introdução por C. Sobral,  Lisboa, Esfera do Caos, 2016

Camilo Castelo Branco, O Demónio do Ouro , edição crítica por C. Sobral, Lisboa, INCM, 2014

C.Sobral, A. Askins e I. Almeida, Examinar os manuscritos das livrarias particulares, obra do Conde de Ericeira , Coimbra-Lisboa: Centro Interuniversitário de Estudos Camonianos – Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, 2012.

Paulo de Portalegre, Novo Memorial do Estado Apostólico. Primeira Crónica dos Lóios , edição crítica e estudo por C.Sobral, Lisboa: Roma Editora, 2007.

Jorge Pinto

Course coordinator.

Jorge Pinto is Assistant Professor at the Department of General and Romance Linguistics of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, where he teaches since 2014, and researcher at CLUL (Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa), since 2011.

He completed a PhD on Education (Language Didactics) in 2010. His main research interests are on foreign languages didactics, on teacher training and on the acquisition of Portuguese as a second or a third language.

He’s also Co-coordinator of the Portuguese Foreign Language courses at the Faculty, since 2015, and Co-director of the Portuguese Language Centre at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, since 2014.

Letícia Almeida

Letícia Almeida is Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa since 2020 and researcher at the Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa. She obtained a Ph.D in Portuguese Linguistics from Universidade de Lisboa in 2012 with a work on phonological acquisition in a bilingual context. She was a post-doctoral researcher at Université de Tours (2013-2015) where she focussed on bilingual children with Developmental Language Disorders. She was also a post-doctoral researcher at Dynamique Du Langage, UMR 5596, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (2016-2019) where she worked on the acquisition of French as a second language (L2). She has been working and supervising work on bilingual and L2 acquisition and on clinical linguistics. She has authored and co-authored several papers and book chapters on her research areas.

Maria Helena Antunes

Maria Helena Marques Antunes has been a French lecturer at the Department of General and Romance Linguistics at Lisbon University’s School of Arts and Humanities since 2016, as well as being a researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies. She completed her PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies, in the field of Comparative Studies, with a thesis entitled Modalidades de interlocução na poesia peninsular e francesa do século XV (Dialogue Modalities in 15th century Peninsular and French poetry) (ULisboa, 2017). She is particularly interested in French and Iberian medieval literature and has continued her research into 15th century poetry. Maria Helena is part of the project ECHO: Poetry and Poets of the Cancioneiro Geral , regularly presenting results of her work, both at international congresses and in specialized publications. Recently, she has been working on issues related to the use of medieval literary texts in foreign language classes. This line of research has led her to assess how the adaptation and rewriting processes of these works may influence how young readers receive them.

Nelson Pinheiro Gomes

Nelson Pinheiro Gomes is an assistant professor in the Culture and Communication Program and the English Studies Department at the School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon. He holds a PhD and an MA in the area of Culture and Communication, and also an MBA-Master in Business Administration. Currently, he is the director of the Culture and Communication Studies BA and the co-director of the PhD in Culture Studies.

In addition to teaching activities, he has developed research in the field of Cultural Management and Strategy, specifically at the level of Trend Studies, coordinating the Trends and Culture Management Lab/Project. His research is focused on cultural analysis methods and their impact in business and social strategic projects and activities. He is an integrated researcher at CEAUL.

Pedro Calafate

Philosophy representative.

Full professor at the University of Lisbon (Philosophy Department) and a researcher at the Center for Philosophy at the University of Lisbon. Main fields of action: History of modern age philosophy (Renaissance, Baroque and Enlightenment) in Portugal, Spain and the Ibero-American world. More recently (2012-2019): ethical, legal and political thought of the “second scholastic” at the Universities of Coimbra and Évora (16th and 17th centuries), in dialogue with the “School of Salamanca”. The most relevant Books are: A ideia de Natureza no Século XVIII em Portugal (Imprensa Nacional-CM, Lisboa, 1994); Historia do Pensamento Filosófico Português (Caminho, Lisboa, 1999-2004, 5 vols.); Portugal como Problema (Fundação Luso-Americana, Lisboa 2006, 4 vols.); A Escola Ibérica da Paz nas Universidades de Coimbra e Évora (Almedina, Coimbra, 2015-2020, 3 vols.); Portugal, um perfil histórico (Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Lisboa, 2016); Poder e Resistência. Doutrinas Políticas no século XVII em Portugal (Esfera do Caos, Lisboa, 2012);  Obra Completa do Padre António Vieira , 30 volumes, Pedro Calafate e José Eduardo Franco, (Eds) (Círculo de Leitores/Loyola, Lisboa/São Paulo, 2023-2017).

Key words: Political Philosophy, Natural Law, Jus Gentium, Jus Cogens, Justice, Nature, Human Rights, Portugal, Spain, Iberoamerica.

Sérgio Campos Matos

History representative.

Sérgio Campos Matos is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Lisbon, where he teaches since 1985. His main areas of research are: social memory, historiographies, nationalisms and the relationships between Portugal and Spain within wider contexts, from cultural, social and political history perspectives. He has authored or co-authored papers in these areas for international reviews, for the Diccionario político y social del mundo iberoamericano, ed. by J. Fernández Sebastián (Madrid, 2009) and The Contested Nation, ed. by S. Berger and C. Lorenz (London: 2008). He is author of Historiografia e memória nacional no Portugal do século XIX (1846-1898) (Lisbon, 1998) and Consciência histórica e nacionalismo. Portugal (séculos XIX e XX) (Lisbon: 2008). Recently he has been working on the Dicionário de Historiadores Portugueses (1779-1974). He is co-editor of Historiografia e memórias (séculos XIX a XXI) (Lisbon, 2012) and A Universidade de Lisboa nos séculos XIX e XX (Lisbon, 2013). He collaborated with several foreign universities such as the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and the Universities of São Paulo, Valencia and Pisa. He was part of the editorial board of the Revista da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa (1997-2004) and Clio, II série (2002-2009). He is consultant of História da Historiografia 2011, História – Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto and e- Journal os Portuguese Studies.

The ICLP courses are held in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. Classroom courses may only be taught remotely if the situation demands it.

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• Tuesdays & Wednesdays: 2 pm - 4 pm
• Fridays to Sundays: closes

WORKING DAYS - SUMMER (July 1st to September 27th):

• Mondays to Thursdays:   10 am - 12 pm (noon)
• Fridays to Sundays: Closed

Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa Alameda da Universidade 1600-214 Lisboa Portugal

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PhD in Translation and Language Sciences

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4 academic years

From September to June

Full time dedication

Catalan, Spanish and English

Department of Translation and Language Sciences

Presentation

Doctoral programme of the UPF Doctoral School, governed by Royal Decree 99/2011

Lines of research

• Acquisition of language
• Discourse analysis
• Language learning
• Translation studies
• Lexicology and lexicography
• Computational linguistics and language engineering
• Formal linguistics, descriptive and variation
• Literary reception and translation
• Terminology and knowledge management
• Specialized translation

Admission requirements

In order to be admitted to Translation and Language Sciences PhD Programme offered by UPF, candidates must provide accreditation that they have obtained an  accredited   undergraduate degree  (Bachelor degree or recognised equivalent degree from an accredited Higher Education Institution).   Moreover, they have to proof that they have obtained or are in position to obtain an  accredited  graduate/master's degree (equivalent to a Spanish Master Universitario/Oficial, Master's of Research.... ) which enables them to access a Phd programme in their home country. 

To access a PhD programme at UPF you must have an official university degree and a master's degree, and have passed at least 300 ECTS credits. 

You can also access the doctorate with: 

• an official Spanish university degree or equivalent, as long as at least 300 ECTS credits have been passed and a level 3 of the MECES is accredited; 
• a degree from the European Higher Education Area (non-Spanish) that accredits a level 7 of the European Qualifications Framework, as long as this degree entitles to access a PhD in the issuing country; 
• a foreign title (non-EHEA) of a training level equivalent to a Spanish university master's degree and that entitles to access a PhD programme in the issuing country; 
• a doctoral degree.

Mandatory documents to be submitted

• A photocopy of the  undergraduate degree/diploma or Certification/proof of degree completion   (Bachelor degree or recognised equivalent degree from an accredited Higher Education Institution).
• A photocopy of the  official final undergraduate transcript . 
• A photocopy of the  graduate/master's degree/diploma or Certification/proof of degree completion .
• A photocopy of your  official final graduate/master's transcript  .
• A signed declaration  of obtaining your graduate/master's degree before the commencement of the master's programme.
• A photocopy of the  provisional graduate/master's transcript .

Students holding a Spanish DEA (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados) according to  RD 778/1998 / Suficiencia Investigadora according to RD185/1985 or an undergraduate degree of 300 ECTS credits (such as Medicine...) will not need to have completed a master's degree.    

• Endorsement letter by any member of the academic staff of the doctoral program in Translation and Language Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra supporting the candidate's project (using this  template ).
• Two recomendation letters using this template . 

It is recommended that these letters of recommendation be written by researchers from outside the UPF Department of Translation and Language Sciences. In any case,  they can’t be written  by the same person who signs the favourable report for admission to our doctoral programme.

In order to optimise the treatment and security of the recommendation letters, the candidate will have to request those via the online application system, where he/she will need to indicate the e-mail adress of the person/the persons he/she wishes to be recommended by. That person will receive an e-mail indicating that the candidate wishes a recommenation letter from him/her. The letter will be uploaded by the referee in the online application system. Non-institutional addresses such as *yahoo, *gmail, *hotmail, etc... will not be accepted.

• Brief motivation letter that proves the candidate's capacity and interest  in the research proposal s/he wants to join (2 pages).
• Brief doctoral research proposal (2 pages) within  any of the PhD research track .
• Curriculum vitae.
• Identity Card  or  Passport .

UPF master's degrees that can be taken prior to this doctorate

• Master in Translation Studies  
• Master in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 
• Master in Discourse Studies: Communication, Society and Learning
• Master in Translation among Global Languages: Chinese-Spanish
• Master in Cognitive Science and Language  (interuniversity master coordinated by UB)
• Master in Training of Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language (interuniversity master coordinated by UB)

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PhD in Linguistics

Education objectives, general characterization.

PhD (3 rd Cycle)

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A Doctorate is a final qualification. This course is recognized for career progression purposes of recruitment for teachers of group 200, 300, 310, 320, 330, 340 and 350, as provided in the Statute of Teaching Career.

Coordinator

Maria Antónia Coutinho

Opening date

September 2019

More information provided in the Call for Applications, available on www.fcsh.unl.pt

(to be available at http://fcsh.unl.pt/escola-doutoral/doutoramentos)

Teaching language

Available soon

Degree pre-requisites

Length: 8 semesters. Total credits: 240 credits (60 from curricular units + 180 credits from the non teaching component). Non teaching component modalities: Thesis. Number of credits as free-elective optionals: 10 credits. The free-elective seminar can be chosen among curricular units from the postgraduate training offered by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH/NOVA), in other units of NOVA University of Lisbon, or other national or foreign Higher Education institutions under agreement or protocol. The degree of “doutor” corresponds to the level 8 of the NQF and EQF-National Qualifications Framework/European Qualifications Framework.

Conditions of admittance

To be admitted to a doctoral programme of studies, the candidate should satisfy the conditions set forth in Portuguese legislation and in the normative conditions of UNL as well as fulfil at least one of the following requirements: a) Have a Masters degree, or a legal equivalent; b) Have a first cycle degree (‘licenciatura’) and a particularly relevant academic or scientific curriculum which is recognised by the Academic Board of FCSH/NOVA as testifying to the candidate’s ability to undertake this cycle of studies; c) Possess an academic, scientific or professional curriculum recognised by the Academic Board of FCSH/NOVA as testifying to the candidate’s ability to undertake this cycle of studies.

Evaluation rules

The study course leading to the doctoral degree includes the completion of a doctoral program that consists of curricular unit aimed at training for research; the realization of an original thesis, designed especially for this purpose, appropriate to the branch of knowledge or expertise. The seminar curricular units type are classified on a scale of 0-20. The final classification of the PhD course is expressed by approved or not approved formulas. In case of approval, the final classification of the PhD course is expressed in the range 10-20 on a scale of 0-20, doing the arithmetic average of the marks in which the curricular units with 10 ECTS. The final classification of the thesis is expressed by formulas approved or refused by justified nominal vote with no abstentions.

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PhD Programs at LTI

Ph.d. in language and information technology.

The Ph.D. in Language and Information Technology focuses on developing the next generation of scientific and entrepreneurial leaders in our research areas, preparing our graduates to be future leaders in academia and industry.

Dual-Degree Ph.D. in Language and Information Technologies (Portugal Partnership)

The Dual-Degree Ph.D. program combines the benefits of our Ph.D. in Language and Information Technology with the opportunity to study and collaborate with world-renowned experts at our partner institutions in Portugal.

CLUNL - Centro Linguística da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Lisbon Summer School in Linguistics 2023

Phd programme lisboa, july 3-7, 2023.

Venue NOVA Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Avenida de Berna, 26-C 1069-061 Lisboa – Portugal

COURSES OFFERED

Area 1: f ormal and experimental linguistics.

Course 1: Researching L2 speech perception and production in instructed SLA: tasks, measures and cognitive individual differences – Joan Carles Mora (University of Barcelona, Spain)

Course 2: Linguistic aspects and individual differences in child heritage language development – Vicky Chondrogianni (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Course 3: Mapping Educational Linguistics: research trends and methods – Joana Batalha (CLUNL | NOVA FCSH, Portugal) & Ana Luísa Costa (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal)

AREA 2: T ERMINOLOGY AND LEXICOGRAPHY

Course 1: Metalexicography and the lexicographic practice – Rufus H. Gouws (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

Course 2: Data-Driven Learning and lexical resources – Christina Dechamps (CLUNL | NOVA FCSH, Portugal)

Course 3: End-to-end computer aided terminology work – Patrick Drouin (University of Montreal, Canada) – Registration CLOSED , all places filled

AREA 3: GRAMMAR & TEXT

Course 1: Grammaticalization – synchronic and diachronic perspectives – Gabriele Diewald (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)

Course 2: Relações discursivas em torno de pontos de vista – Maria Aldina Marques (Universidade do Minho, CEHUM, Portugal)

Course 3:  Textos, historia y sociedad(es): cuestiones de alteridad en el análisis de textos y géneros – Florencia Miranda & Diego Bussola (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)

On 30th of June and 1st of July, the Young Researchers Group of NOVA CLUNL organize the XVII Forum for Linguistic Sharing . See detailed information here .

(Download the schedule here )

PROGRAM PER AREA

Program of the courses of Area 1 ( PDF )

Program of the courses of Area 2 ( PDF )

Program of the courses of Area 3 ( PDF )

Fees for PhD Students at NOVA FCSH 

• Enrolled in Doctoral Programs in Linguistics, Translation and Terminology, or Languages Teaching – Multilingualism and Education for a Global Citizenship: FREE
• Enrolled in any Doctoral Program at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa: 1st course. FREE; other courses: 50€ each

Fees for all

• Registration in a single course: 90€
• Registration in 2 courses: 120€
• Registration in 3 courses: 150€

REGISTRATION

Enrollment is open until 25th of June, 2023.

To enroll, please fill in the form available here and consider the following payment information.

Please, be aware that enrollment will only be validated after reception of your confirmation of transaction at [email protected]

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In the transfer details, you should specify “Summer School – NOVA CLUNL”.

Refund is not possible.

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PhD in Portuguese Linguistics

General objectives of the course, admission requirements.

Candidates must hold an MA degree awarded within the scientific field of linguistics; Holders of a BA degree in a course with a minimum of four years of study in the fields of Romance Philology, Classical Philology, Classical and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, Modern Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Humanities, Portuguese and Lusophone Studies and Modern Languages (bi disciplinary branch including Portuguese) will also be admitted. MA and BA degree holders in other fields may also apply, provided they have a level of education or scientific and professional qualifications deemed appropriate by the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Non-native speakers of Portuguese are required to have a minimum level of language proficiency in Portuguese of C1, as defined by the CEFR. This language proficiency level will be assessed in a personal interview.

Candidates should check the admission requirements available on this site, in addition to the information provided here.

Professional Goals

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Maria da Conceição Carapinha Rodrigues [email protected]

Maria Isabel Pires Pereira [email protected]

Recognition of Prior Learning

Qualification requirements and regulations, graduation requirements.

Obtaining the degree implies the approval in all curricular units and the approval, in public defense, of an original thesis.

Access to Further Studies

Study programme.

Course Type 3rd Cycle Studies

DGES Code : 5942

Qualification Awarded : Doutor

Duration : 3 Year(s)

ECTS Credits : 180.0

Annual Fee : 1417.0

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Ph.D. in Language Technologies

Language is one of the most commonplace facets of our everyday lives, but managing and allowing these complex systems to interact is no easy task. By enrolling the dual degree Ph.D. Program in Language Technologies, students will be part of a branch of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, the Language Technologies Institute that has been a world leader in the areas of speech processing, language processing, information retrieval, machine translation, machine learning and bio-informatics since its inception.

Admissions and Scholarships – 2024/25 Applications are CLOSED.

For more information please contact us at apply[at]cmuportugal.org

Focusing primarily on machine translation, speech processing, and information retrieval, the  Language Technologies   Institute , within the  School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University,   offers the dual degree  Ph.D. Program in Language Technologies , together with:

• Universidade de Aveiro ( Ph.D. in Computer Engineering ), Universidade do Minho ( Ph.D. in Informatics )  and the Universidade do Porto (FCUP, Ph.D. in Computer Science  and FEUP,  Ph.D. in Computer Science ) as part of  MAPi ;
• Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências – FCUL ( Ph.D. in Informatics ) 
• Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico ( Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering ,  Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering ,  Ph.D. in Information Security )
• Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia – FCTUNL ( Ph.D. in Computer Science )
• Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia – FCTUC ( Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology )

Students participating in the dual-degree program will spend their first year in Portugal, followed by two years in Pittsburgh to complete their coursework. They will complete a maximum of eight courses with a proper balance of focus areas (linguistics, computer science, statistical/learning and task orientation). After that, they will return to Portugal for their last two years, pursuing research and completing their dissertation.

Students jointly enrolled in the LTI Ph.D. program usually spend their first two years at Carnegie Mellon taking classes in linguistics, computer science, statistical learning and task orientation. After completing the majority of their academic requirements, students then return to Portugal for the next three years to conduct extensive research, ultimately leading to a dissertation topic that will be publicly defended. One adviser from each institution co-supervises their student’s progress and helps to define their final thesis topic.

Course Structure

The course structure requirements and contents at CMU are available at the Languages Technologies Institute website. 

Supervision

The thesis will be co-advised by at least two co-advisers, one from CMU and one from a Portuguese partner University

Type of Degree

The student will be awarded with a dual degree Ph.D conferred by CMU and another by the Portuguese partner University. During the Ph.D., the student should comply with the regulations of both Universities.

5 years (full-time), with up to 2 years at CMU and up to 3 years at a Portuguese University.

Scholarships and tuition

The Ph.D. students enrolled in the dual degree Ph.D. program will receive financial support through an FCT - CMU Portugal Fellowship (includes tuition fees and a monthly stipend).

Application requirements

The dual degree Ph.D. program uses the School of Computer Science online application for admissions. You must submit the following documents with your application: • CV (pdf.) • A statement of purpose — a concise one- or two-page essay describing your primary research interests, related experiences and objective in pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science • Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is optional • English proficiency: If your native language is not English or you have not graduated from a U.S. university, you must submit a TOEFL or IELTS test. Duolingo tests are also accepted in case you are unable to to test for TOEFL or IELTS • Transcripts from each college and/or university you attended, even if no degree was granted (pdf.) • Three letters of recommendation, at least two of which are from faculty or recent employers

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Duration: 4 years medium of instruction: portuguese.

• To provide students with a comprehensive study and understanding of the theoretical, empirical, and practical dimensions of Linguistics.
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• Tailored to provide relevant insight into curriculum design, teaching methodologies and assessment practices as well.
• Designed for students who are or aspire to a career in Higher Education.

Programme Intended Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this programme, students should be able to:

• Describe and use, critically and creatively, linguistic theories in a comprehensive way and master the main theoretical and methodological tools to perform original linguistic analysis.
• Apply a variety of critical and comparative theoretical frameworks to explain, examine and understand issues in society related to the study of languages in Portuguese-speaking countries and to demonstrate the impact of scientific research in societal issues of such countries.
• Think independently and critically, judge and analyze language-related problems in a scientific way and develop original study design involving argumentation capacity, experimental methods, fieldwork and/or theoretical analysis.
• Design a research project and write a thesis which can make an original contribution to the field of General/Portuguese linguistics, based on the building of original hypotheses, conjectures, reasonings and research questions.
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• Please refer to the  Graduate School’s webpage .

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The Spanish and Portuguese Section offers undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan. It is unique in its commitment to exploring the trans-historical and cross-cultural interrelations between all these language areas and their corresponding cultural formations. The research interests of its academic staff thus span a wide range of areas including Medieval and Golden Age Spanish cultures and their consolidation in dialogue with the diverse cultures and faith systems of Africa and the "New World"; the literature, art and cinema of Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa; the literature of modern Spain and its relationship with the Enlightenment, colonialism, and modernity; the cinema of the Ibero-American world from early silent film through to its avant-garde, indigenous, popular and transnational dimensions today; and the culture of Catalonia from its rebirth in the Renaixença , through its resistance to Franquismo in literature and film, to its vibrant contemporary artistic, architectural and cinematographic expressions.

The Section also has one of the largest contingents of Latin American specialists in the United Kingdom, whose interests span the poetry and chronicles of the colonial period; the formation of national cultures in post-Independence Spanish America and Brazil; the experimental literatures of the Spanish American "Boom"; and the literature, cinema, and visual art produced in the interlocking contexts of post-dictatorship, mass urbanisation, narcotráfico and neo-liberal globalisation. The intellectual vitality of the Section is further evidenced by a dynamic research culture of public lectures, section seminars, postgraduate workshops and conferences, all of which add to a close-knit system of postgraduate supervision and mentoring that encourages both individual and collective endeavour within the section.

In British universities, the PhD (Doctorate of Philosophy) is traditionally awarded solely on the basis of a thesis, a substantial piece of writing which reports original research into a closely defined area of enquiry. The completion of the PhD thesis is generally expected to take three to four years, and most funding is based on this assumption. It's also possible to take a part-time route through research degrees, and the expected timeframe would be five to seven years. During your research, you will have the opportunity to work closely with a supervisor who is a specialist in your research area.  In addition to your supervisor, you will normally also be able to draw on the help and support of other members of the Section with expertise in your field of study.

In addition to the specialist supervising provided by the Section, the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics runs a programme of professional training for the benefit of all research students. The programme includes seminars and workshops on library resources, giving conference papers, publishing, applications and interviews, and teaching skills. The School of Arts and Humanities runs a central programme covering a range of skills relevant to doctoral students. Doctoral students may also be offered opportunities to do small-group teaching for the undergraduate colleges and, in some cases, language teaching for the Faculty.  

The Spanish and Portuguese Section and the Centre of Latin American Studies are pleased to share details of a  Consortium in Latin American Cultural Studies for PhD students. This new flexible arrangement will foster a greater exchange of ideas between students and scholars in the Section and the Centre and provide more opportunities for them to access relevant training, funding and other resources. Please visit the Latin American Cultural Studies Consortium page on the Department of Spanish and Portuguese website for further information.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the programme, candidates will have acquired excellent skills, experience and knowledge to undertake postdoctoral work (research and teaching) or another related profession.

For Cambridge students applying to continue from the MPhil by Advanced Study to PhD, the minimum academic requirement is an overall distinction in the MPhil.

For Cambridge students applying to continue from the MPhil by Thesis to PhD, the usual academic requirement is a pass in the MPhil.

All applications are judged on their own merits and students must demonstrate their suitability to undertake doctoral level research.

The Postgraduate Virtual Open Day usually takes place at the end of October. It’s a great opportunity to ask questions to admissions staff and academics, explore the Colleges virtually, and to find out more about courses, the application process and funding opportunities. Visit the  Postgraduate Open Day  page for more details.

See further the  Postgraduate Admissions Events  pages for other events relating to Postgraduate study, including study fairs, visits and international events.

Departments

This course is advertised in the following departments:

• Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
• Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Key Information

3-4 years full-time, 4-7 years part-time, study mode : research, doctor of philosophy, department of spanish and portuguese this course is advertised in multiple departments. please see the overview tab for more details., course - related enquiries, application - related enquiries, course on department website, dates and deadlines:, lent 2024 (closed).

Some courses can close early. See the Deadlines page for guidance on when to apply.

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These deadlines apply to applications for courses starting in Michaelmas 2024, Lent 2025 and Easter 2025.

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Spanish and Portuguese

General information, program offerings:, director of graduate studies:, graduate program administrator:.

The aim of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese is to train students to become effective teachers and scholars of Spanish and/or Portuguese languages and cultures. Instruction and supervision are so arranged as to ensure that students acquire a broad understanding of the whole field of Spanish and/or Luso-Afro-Brazilian studies as well as a specialized grasp of one of its subfields, and to prepare students to develop independently as scholars.

Additional departmental requirements

Sample of written work, 15-25 page essay on any literary and/or cultural topic, written in Spanish or Portuguese.

Program Offerings

Program offering: ph.d., program description.

The Graduate Program of the Department is administered by the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), in consultation with the Chair of the Department. These two officers are the Department's spokespersons on matters of policies and procedures as they pertain to departmental and university requirements and regulations.

Students consult regularly with the DGS concerning their intellectual interests and choices, as well as their course selection and academic performance in meetings scheduled from their first semester and throughout their graduate career. Also in keeping with our commitment to fostering communication, a meeting of all students with the Chair and DGS will be scheduled each semester. A third channel for the exchange of ideas is offered by the graduate liaison committee (GLC) composed of graduate students representatives from each year who are expected to consult with the DGS throughout the term to communicate student concerns and suggestions.

Fourth year students and up can keep their advisors/second reader/examiners format. Students in 1st, 2nd and 3rd years will now have a committee of 3 (including and advisor). Students should choose their 3rd committee member by September 30 of their 5th semester.

The department requires a total of 15 courses to be completed by students by the end of the sixth semester (only one course may be an audit). Students normally take 3 or 4 courses for the first 4 semesters of study. In the fourth or fifth semester, 1 of the courses may be audited. Courses chosen for the fifth and -eventually- sixth semesters should be particularly relevant to the projected topic of the dissertation. Students typically take 2 courses in the fifth semester and 1 course in the sixth semester, including a reading course.

Students may choose to take 2 or 3 of the 15 required courses in other departments (with an absolute maximum of 5). Thus, at least 10 of the 15 courses must be taken in the department. Of these department-based offerings, students are required to take courses in each of the five fields (Medieval/Early Modern, Colonial, Modern Latin American, Modern Peninsular, and Luso-Afro-Brazilian). One of the 15 required courses should be a course on theory (critical theory, literary theory, cultural theory), which we will make every effort to offer at least every 2 years, and which can be taken in another department.

Students specializing in Hispanic literatures and cultures are required to take at least one 500-level course taught in Portuguese, and, likewise, students focusing on Luso-Afro-Brazilian topics are expected to take at least one 500-level course taught in Spanish language.

Colloquia and Lectures The department offers a very lively intellectual climate, with scholarly colloquia, public lectures, workshops, and related events.  Graduate student attendance of such events is strongly urged as they provide valuable insights into the scholarship being produced in the respective fields as well as opportunities to engage with leading scholars and participate in events as co-organizers, respondents and speakers.

Students are encouraged to selectively participate and present papers at professional meetings in the United States and abroad. Given the demands of the program, however, the Department advises that students favor publications in professional journals over conference papers.

Language(s)

Reading proficiency in a foreign language that is relevant to the student’s field of specialization is required. Since we are a Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Spanish and Portuguese are not considered foreign languages.

All language exams must be completed by the end of the fourth semester (before the General Examination), and are normally given by the Department once per semester (usually in November and April). Students may also fulfill these requirements by enrolling in an appropriate language course, approved by the Director of Graduate Studies.

Additional pre-generals requirements

Students will receive a reading list of 50 books that they must read before the general exams.

General exam

By the end of the second semester, students are expected to declare their primary field of specialization, choosing one of the five possible concentrations:

•     Medieval/Early Modern
•     Colonial
•     Modern Latin American
•     Modern Peninsular
•     Luso-Afro-Brazilian

The general examination consists of two parts.

Part I This part of the exam will cover a 50-book reading list that encompasses the 5 fields. The goal of this part is to test the student’s understanding with some of the most indispensable works in each one of the five fields. 

This exam will take place at the end of April of the fourth semester of enrollment. The format of the exam will be take-home and open-book. Students will be asked to formulate responses to two questions per field over the course of three days with, at least, a day of rest in-between the examination of the respective fields. The exam will take place over the course of about three weeks.

Part II This portion of the General Examination will be in the student’s area of specialization. It will be taken at the beginning of January in the fifth semester of enrollment.

For this second part, students will write a field statement, that is an academic essay fully addressing a relevant topic to the field in relation to his/her/their future research project. Each field statement will focus on a pressing topic or problematics, “a deep dive” within the student’s intended field of specialization. Essays are expected to encompass no less than 10,000 words (bibliography excluded).General guidelines will be provided. Essays are expected to be developed throughout the semester and will be structurally connected to the subsequent preparation of the dissertation proposal, being however a separate exercise.

As a first step in preparation for this part of the Generals, by the end of the second year the student will identify two faculty members in the field of his/her primary area of specialization from among the five fields. One of these two faculty members will be the dissertation advisor, which the student should choose no later than June of the second year. The dissertation advisor is required to be a core member of the Spanish and Portuguese Department faculty. External co-advisors will be permitted only in extraordinary cases and with the approval of the primary advisor and the DGS.

The field statement will be based on a tailor-made list devised by the student in consultation with the two faculty members. The list's final version, approved and signed by the two faculty members, must be submitted by the student to the DGS and the Graduate Administrator by August 30 of the second year.

It is expected that the list will include include at least 50 entries. The list should be divided into sections (e.g., theoretical, critical, historiographic, and/or archival sources). The number and content of the sections will depend on the field of specialization and the topic of the dissertation. All these sections will be relevant to the field statement's preparation.

Essays in each field corresponding to Part I will be read at least by one faculty expert in the field who will communicate a grade for each field to the DGS and the Graduate Administrator.

Field statements corresponding to Part II of the general examination will be read by two faculty members (likely student's committee), who should agree on a grade for each question and a global grade for the entire examination. These should be communicated to the DGS and the Graduate Administrator.

Qualifying for the M.A.

The Master of Arts (M.A.) degree is normally an incidental degree awarded on the way to full Ph.D. candidacy and is earned after a student successfully completes all parts of the general examination. It may also be awarded to student who, for various reasons, leave the Ph.D. program, provided the following requirements are met:

• Successful completion of at least 10 graduate courses with a minimum grade of B.
• No incompletes (INCs) on the transcript.
• Completion of a master's project (approximate length of 40 pages).  The project can be based on a previous research paper. The adviser would be the faculty member to whom the project would be submitted, and there will also be a second reader. Ideally the project should be completed before the student’s enrollment terminates. It will be accepted up to four months after termination.

Spanish students will teach during the fall semesters of their second, third, and fourth years (five to six hours of elementary or advanced language or literary instruction). Portuguese students may be asked to teach either in the fall or in the spring semester of their second, third, and fourth years, depending on departmental teaching needs.

Graduate students will be assigned to teach specific courses based on: previous course evaluations, seniority, appropriateness of field, number of incompletes, and the discretion of the professor in charge of the course. This applies to all levels of teaching, from language courses to precepts.

Students will teach during the fall semesters of their second, third, and fourth years (five to six hours of elementary or advanced language or literary instruction). This will give them time to concentrate on their graduate seminars in their first year, and will also relieve the pressure during the fourth semester, when they will be preparing for their General Examinations.

Besides language teaching, graduate students may have the opportunity to teach in precepts (discussion sections) in literature/culture courses or assist faculty with the teaching of summer study abroad courses or Global Seminars. If circumstances permit and a student’s area of study is closely aligned to a course, one may be invited by a faculty member to teach a precept, and in such unique cases the following policies will apply:

• Graduate students invited to be preceptors for courses of 24 or more will be relieved of their language teaching for that academic year. However, the student must actually lead their own precept to receive this course “relief”; they cannot, for instance, simply grade for a professor. Princeton in Argentina/Brazil/Portugal/Spain, Princeton in Cuba, and Global Seminars taught by SPO faculty with the help of the graduate student will also allow participating graduate students language teaching relief.
• Precepting can only count in lieu of language teaching if the course is within SPO, for a SPO professor’s course (say, located in PLAS or IHUM), for Princeton in Cuba, or for a SPO-led Global Seminar. Courses taught for other institutions cannot substitute for required teaching or precepting in SPO.
• If a student uses summer teaching for a Global Seminar or for Princeton in Argentina/Brazil/Portugal/Spain to count as that academic year’s teaching, he or she will be compensated in the summer and will receive only the regular fellowship during the academic year.
• If a proposed course does not achieve a minimum of 18 students in some advance of the semester’s inauguration, the precept will be eliminated and the student will be reassigned language courses when possible.
• Every effort will be made to ensure that these opportunities are available for a maximum number of students. However, occasionally a student may serve as a preceptor on more than one occasion.

The Department may elect to provide other forms of support fulfilling the teaching requirement, e.g., languages tables, tutoring, Assistantship, in lieu of teaching when necessary.

Students on external fellowships will also be required to teach, at the Department’s discretion. All graduate student will be visited at least once a semester by the head of the course they teach.  After the visit, the head of course will meet with the student to discuss performance, offer suggestions and, if necessary, arrange for a follow-up visit. The head of course will also complete a Departmental evaluation form, which will be placed in the student's file. 

While these teaching evaluations are confidential and will not be communicated verbatim to a prospective employer, it should be remembered that teaching is an essential part of the student’s training, and the Department is usually asked to comment on the student’s teaching performance.

Post-Generals requirements

Dissertation and fpo.

A draft of student’s dissertation proposal is expected to be submitted to their advisor by third week of March of the sixth semester of enrollment.

The articulation of the dissertation topic and the methodology that will be employed in its writing will be made to the faculty in May (after Dean's Date) of the third year, at the end of the sixth semester, in a 20-minute presentation. It will consist of: 1-a detailed oral presentation of the dissertation topic in the language in which the dissertation will be written, 2-an examination by the faculty on this proposal and its implications. The faculty will make suggestions to the student, either approving the proposal as it stands, or requesting revision and resubmission. (At this time, the Department may also decide to grant the student the incidental master's degree).

The student must submit a written version of the proposal double-spaced to the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) for transmission to the faculty no later than one week before the public presentation. This document must include an explanatory essay indicating what the dissertation proposes to study and why it is important to the field. In addition, it should detail a chapter-by-chapter outline of the proposed thesis and should include a substantial bibliography on the dissertation topic. The presentation should not be a mere summary of the written document—which faculty will already have read—but might explore the process of arriving at the project, methodological challenges and strategies, and analysis of some of the objects/texts/images to be analyzed in the project. The proposal may not exceed 5,000 words, not including the bibliography. The word count (no more than 5,000, excluding the bibliography) must be stated at the beginning of the proposal.

After the public presentation of the proposal, the Director of the Graduate Studies (DGS) will communicate the faculty’s comments to the student. If judged unacceptable, the proposal may be revised and resubmitted one time only after revision.

The Dissertation-Writing Workshop In the fall of the 4th and 5th years, students writing their theses may participate in an informal series of meetings with faculty members to discuss aspects of dissertation research, writing, and structure.

The Language of the Dissertation Students wishing to write their dissertation in Spanish or Portuguese rather than in English must obtain the prior approval of the DGS, who will consult with the dissertation director. If permission is granted, an explanatory letter from the thesis director and a formal request by the DGS will then be sent to the Dean of the Graduate School, who normally approves the request. 

Advising and Scope of the Dissertation The dissertation committee will consist of one adviser and two additional committee members. The dissertation adviser is required to be a core member of the Spanish and Portuguese Department faculty. External co-adviser will be permitted only in extraordinary cases and with the approval of the primary advisor and the DGS.

The dissertation advisor will usually be the first examiner of the student’s General Examination.

The composition of the dissertation committee is a matter to be arranged by the student with the adviser.

Timely progress on the dissertation is a prerequisite for readmission and for financial aid. Before graduate students are hired as preceptors or research assistants by faculty members, their dissertation advisor must agree that such employment will not significantly delay completion of the dissertation.

It is assumed that the scope of the dissertation will be such as to allow for its completion in two and a half years. Both the director and the second reader will be kept up to date on the student’s progress, and will read, judge, and critique chapters as they are produced. Both the director and the second reader should approve a final first draft before the dissertation is produced in its final form.

As stated in The Graduate School Catalog, "five years following the General Examination are allowed for the completion of the dissertation". After that time, the Department is under no obligation to direct or receive a dissertation, and does so at its own discretion.

As an example, if a dissertation contained four chapters, the schedule could be the following:

Introduction, July, 3rd year;

Chapter One: by December, 4th year; Chapter Two: by May, 4th year; Chapter Three: by September, 5th year; Chapter Four: by February, 5th year; Final Version: by May, 5th year.

Final Public Oral Dissertation Defense There are three examiners at the defense. Only one of the two readers may serve as principal examiner. The remaining two examiners are selected from among other member of the Faculty. An examiner from another institution may participate in the FPO if they fill a gap in expertise that cannot be covered by any other professor at the university. Such examiner needs to be first approved by the DGS and, then, by the Graduate School. For more information, see https://gradschool.princeton.edu/academics/degree-requirements/graduate… .

The FPO consists of the following three parts: 1- a brief (thirty-minute) presentation by the candidate of the dissertation in English, Spanish, or Portuguese; 2- an examination by the three principal examiners; and 3- questions by other faculty in attendance. The exercise usually lasts an hour and a half. The Final Public Oral is open to all members of the University community, and other graduate students are welcome to attend.

In the fall of the 4th and 5th years, students writing their theses may participate in an informal series of meetings with faculty members to discuss aspects of dissertation research, writing, and structure.

• Pedro Meira Monteiro

Director of Graduate Studies

• Javier E. Guerrero

Director of Undergraduate Studies

• Christina H. Lee
• Marina S. Brownlee
• Rubén Gallo
• Germán Labrador Méndez
• Gabriela Nouzeilles

Associate Professor

• Rachel L. Price

Assistant Professor

• Natalia Castro Picón
• Rafael Cesar

Associated Faculty

• Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Effron Center Study of America
• João Biehl, Anthropology
• Eduardo L. Cadava, English
• Susana Draper, Comparative Literature
• Irene V. Small, Art and Archaeology

University Lecturer

• Alberto Bruzos Moro

Senior Lecturer

• Anna Alsina Naudi
• Gorka Bilbao Terreros
• Mariana Bono
• Nicola T. Cooney
• Anais Holgado-Lage
• Adriana G. Merino
• Dunia Catalina Méndez Vallejo
• Catalina Arango
• Cloe Cavero de Carondelet
• Nadia Cervantes Pérez
• Maria F. Chiaramonte
• Yvonne Gavela-Ramos
• Luis Gonçalves
• Iris I. Hauser
• Raquel Mattson-Prieto
• Paloma Moscardó-Vallés
• Eduardo Negueruela Azarola
• Eliot Raynor
• Cesar Adrian Romero Fernandez
• Maria A. Saiz Angulo
• Amina B. Shabani

Visiting Professor

• Laura Catelli
• Lilia K. Moritz Schwarcz

For a full list of faculty members and fellows please visit the department or program website.

Permanent Courses

Courses listed below are graduate-level courses that have been approved by the program’s faculty as well as the Curriculum Subcommittee of the Faculty Committee on the Graduate School as permanent course offerings. Permanent courses may be offered by the department or program on an ongoing basis, depending on curricular needs, scheduling requirements, and student interest. Not listed below are undergraduate courses and one-time-only graduate courses, which may be found for a specific term through the Registrar’s website. Also not listed are graduate-level independent reading and research courses, which may be approved by the Graduate School for individual students.

ARC 594 - Topics in Architecture (also ART 584/HUM 593/MOD 504/SPA 559)

Com 542 - feminist poetics and politics in the americas (1960s to the present) (also gss 542/las 512/spa 558), hum 597 - humanistic perspectives on history and society (also arc 597/las 597/mod 597/spa 557), por 562 - luso-brazilian seminar, spa 500 - methodology of spanish and portuguese language teaching: seminar and practicum (also por 500), spa 506 - the spanish pacific, 1521-1815: a survey of primary sources, spa 534 - seminar in medieval spanish literature, spa 538 - seminar in golden-age literature (also com 578), spa 540 - main currents of spanish thought, 1848 to the present (also por 573), spa 543 - seminar in modern spanish literature, spa 547 - narrative prose in latin america, spa 548 - seminar in modern spanish-american literature (also art 549/las 548), spa 550 - seminar in colonial spanish american literature (also las 525), spa 556 - slavery, anti-slavery, and post-slavery in the iberian atlantic (also aas 554/las 556), spa 562 - the cinema of cruelty (also hum 562/las 542), spa 583 - seminar in literary theory (also las 583).

Ph.D. Curriculum

Our Ph.D. program combines current theoretical research in phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics with state-of-the-art experimental research in psycholinguistics, first language acquisition, language processing, neurolinguistics and computational linguistics

Valentine Hacquard and Ellen Lau

The Ph.D. is a research degree. That means you will advance the scientific understanding of language, and explain what you have discovered to others, including peers, students, and interested parties outside of the field. Training for this degree has at least four aspects, all of them important: coursework, research, presentation of your research, both written and oral, and teaching. Progress requires work in all of these areas, and students in the program are actively mentored in each.

Schematic of PhD Program

Year 1 & 2: core requirements.

6 core courses in the department, organized in at least two sequences, at least one of which is theoretical (18 credits). The core courses are LING courses numbered between 600 and 679, plus 723 and 773. The core sequences are below.

Years 2 & 3: Electives and 888

• 2 courses in the second area of specialization (6 credits)
• 2 LING 800-level electives (6 credits)
• LING 888: a major research paper due in the fifth semester of the graduate program (total of 6 credits)
• Possibly the 896 minor paper, which is expected any time before the eighth semester of the graduate program

Years 4 & 5: Minor Paper & Dissertation

• 896 minor paper, which is expected any time before the eighth semester of the graduate program
• 1 or 2 LING 800-level electives (3 credits each)
• LING 899: Ph.D. dissertation research (12 credits)

 Core Sequences

• LING 610 and 611 / Syntax
• LING 620 and 621 / Phonology
• LING 640 and 641 / Psycholinguistics
• LING 660 and either 661 or 663 / Semantics
• LING 723 and 773 / Computational Linguistics

Course of study in detail

Students pursuing the Ph.D. take at least 33 graduate-level credits of coursework, of which at least 9 are at the 800-level (seminars) in Linguistics, and 6 correspond to the second area of coursework specialization , possibly in another department. Usually these 33 credits are earned through formal classes and not independent studies. A student must also complete three written works: the 888 , the 896 , and the dissertation . To help ensure satisfactory progress towards the degree, students are required to submit to the graduate director a Ph.D. Roadmap once each semester, completed in consultation with their advisor.

Normally the student's first year is focused on foundational coursework in the department's three primary research areas: (i) phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, (ii) psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics and language acquisition and (iii) computational linguistics. Within their first two years students must take at least 6 core courses, comprising at least two 2-semester core course sequences, at least one of which is in area (i). The core courses are all of the LING courses numbered between 600 and 679, plus LING723 and LING773. The core sequences are above .

Coursework in the second and third years is ordinarily aimed at satisfying more of the 9-credit requirement for seminars, as well the requirement for 6 credits in the second area of coursework specialization . Courses used to satisfy the second area requirement may be in the same area as courses used to satisfy the other requirements. But the very same credits cannot be used to satisfy two distinct requirements.

This second area of specialization is a coherent area of study that, in the judgment of the graduate director, differs broadly from the student’s first area , either in topic or in method. The first area is one which the student regards as a central area of their research, and normally it is one in which they will complete several courses. For example a student who regards syntax as their central area of research may count semantics as their second area – or psycholinguistics, or phonology, or computational linguistics, and so on. The second area requirement may also be satisfied with courses outside of LING. Some students fulfill the requirement by pursuing the certificate in neuroscience and cognitive science (NACS), for example. 

In the third and fourth years, students prepare two papers, the 888 and the 896 , also called the major and the minor paper. The 888 need not be in the first area of coursework specialization, nor the 896 in the second. But jointly the 888 and 896 must demonstrate an ability to work in at least two different areas, differing broadly in either topic or method, in the judgment of the graduate director. Normally this requirement for plurality is satisfied by the two papers differing broadly from each other. 

The 888 is a substantial paper that demonstrates a capacity for productive research and makes an original contribution to the literature, written under the direction of the supervisor(s) and in consultation with the rest of the committee. Often it is the basis for the dissertation research, but it need not be. The 888 should be completed by the end of the fifth semester. Preparation should begin at least three months prior to completion, with formation of an "888 committee" and submission of an " 888 Committee Form " to the graduate director. The committee must include at least three faculty members, one or more of whom are the appointed supervisors of the 888. While working on the 888, students must register for 6 credits of LING 888, either by taking all 6 in one semester, or by taking fewer over more. The 888 requirement is satisfied only if the paper is submitted to the committee, defended publicly two weeks later, and approved by the committee after the defense. The student must then upload the completed 888 paper to the 888 folder in the department's PDF locker and inform the graduate director that this has been done.

The 896 is a research paper that allows the student to demonstrate a capacity to work in more than one area, satisfying our plurality requirement . Normally it does this by differing broadly from the 888, either in topic or in method. Often it is in the second area of coursework specialization, but this is not required. The 896 is called the minor paper because it need not have the scope or gravity of an 888, and must be approved by only a single member of the faculty who agrees to serve as supervisor. In many cases the supervisor is not a supervisor of the 888, or an advisor of the student, but this is not required. Once the 896 is completed to the satisfaction of the supervisor, it must be uploaded to the 896 locker and the Minor Paper Approval Form must be presented to the graduate director. Completion should occur prior to the end of the eighth semester, and may occur at any prior time, before or after the 888.  Under special circumstances, upon the written recommendation of the student's advisor and with the approval of the faculty of the department, a student may satisfy the minor paper requirement by instead taking a third course in their second area of coursework specialization, beyond the two that satisfy the second area requirement.    After completing the 888, the student becomes a candidate for the PhD. They are then entitled to write a proposal for a dissertation, and find one or two members of the Linguistics faculty to supervise it. While working on the dissertation, a candidate must enroll in LING 899 and take at least 12 credits of this course. With their supervisor(s) they must then jointly select an examining committee and nominate this committee to the Graduate School at least six weeks before the date of the public dissertation defense. The committee must comprise at least five voting members , including its chair(s), as well as a Dean’s Representative, who may or may not be a voting member. At least one of the chairs must be a member of the Linguistics faculty. Determination of when there is a draft that can be defended, and of when the defense will happen, is made by the student and their supervisor(s) in consultation with the committee. Members of the committee must then receive the draft to be defended at least ten working days prior to the defense. On completion of the approved dissertation, following the defense and revisions, a hard copy will be submitted to the department, along with a second hard copy or an electronic version for the department web page. An approved dissertation must make a substantial and original contribution to knowledge in its research area(s).

Under exceptional circumstances, students are awarded an M.A. degree on completion of the core coursework requirements (six courses, see above), four further classes and writing either a M.A. thesis, which is defended publicly (LING 799) or two comprehensive papers in different areas of language study (LING 798). Two of the post core-level class requirements should be taken in the Department of Linguistics, with the rest being taken either in linguistics or in other departments satisfying a secondary area of specialization and complementing the student's work.

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The MA in Linguistics with a concentration in ESL offers students broad training in all core areas of the discipline. Our MA programs prepare students for challenging careers in a variety of industries, including government, education, law, bioinformatics, and natural language processing. The ESL concentration specifically prepares students for careers in teaching English as a second and/or foreign language and language arts instruction for K-12 (with additional certification and coursework from the College of Education). Our MA programs also serve as an excellent foundation for doctoral studies in Linguistics and other language-related fields such as speech pathology, deaf education, audiology, or the teaching of English as a second language.

The five major foci of graduate studies in Linguistics are:

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)  Of general interest to many of our students, but of special interest to those interested in Teaching English as a Second Language, are courses on second language acquisition; pedagogical approaches to English grammar; methods and practicum in teaching English as a second or additional language; and English language variation and change, including varieties of English spoken worldwide. Our practicum in ESL is often available at an international venue. We also offer a Graduate Academic Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Language Documentation, Curation, and Conservation The world's languages, approximately 7000 of them, are disappearing at an alarming rate. Each language encodes unique knowledge about the ecologies - both animals and plants - of the societies that are centered on the languages spoken. To preserve and employ this data to further our understanding of this essential part of what it means to be human, linguists and interested members of language communities work together to collect and analyze linguistic data, and to preserve it in archives for use in the future. We offer courses on scientifically sound and ethically appropriate data collection methodologies, gold standard archiving practices, and methods for data mining. All these lead to research projects on non Indo-European languages and provide students with extraordinary opportunities to learn about new cultures and customs.

Computational Linguistics

The newest focus of the UNT Linguistics Department's graduate offerings is computational linguistics (CL). CL technologies are increasingly present in daily life, from voice-enabled smart phone assistants to predictive text input to machine translation technologies. From an academic viewpoint, CL is the scientific study of language from a computational perspective, living at the intersection of language and technology. Students develop keen skills in linguistics and linguistic analysis. This knowledge can then be applied to the design of computational systems for automating linguistic analysis. At UNT we place a particular focus on how computational methods can support the work of documenting endangered languages, linking two of our department's strengths.

Language Variation and Change Languages can vary in just about every aspect of their grammar. Compare for example American English and Australian English, which differ in accent, words used to refer to the same objects, and also in some sentence patterns. To understand language as a human system we ask how languages vary, the limits to the ways in which they may vary, and what causes them to vary. We offer courses on theoretical frameworks dealing with these questions and these data. We also offer courses on the many varieties of English in America, the structure of African American English Vernacular, the structure and history of the Englishes around the world, and on principles of language change, reconstruction, and change through language contact.

Linguistic Analysis of Literature UNT is one of the few linguistics programs in the country to offer regular courses in the linguistic analysis of poetry and prose. The courses focus on the many kinds of repetition that are used by the world's great writers - repetitions of sound, parallelisms of form - which have the effect of making literary texts a permanent part of the world's art.

A sixth area we are developing in conjunction with the Department of Library Sciences is Language Data Curation and Archiving. In this area of study, students will gain important competencies in the concepts, practices, and technologies used for managing linguistic data, e.g., data modeling and database design, representing information for storage and access, digital curation and data management, and information systems.