Ph.D. Program
Ph.D. Program Director: Alice C. Harris
The Ph.D. program is designed to prepare students for advanced research in linguistic theory as well as its applications in language teaching, speech synthesis and recognition, and natural language processing. Students receive a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of grammatical theory through courses in syntax, semantics, phonology, phonetics, and morphology, Courses in the applications of linguistic theory that address computational, societal, and pedagogical concerns complete the curriculum. Students may receive an M.A. in Linguistics on the way to the Ph.D. Stony Brook Graduate Bulletin