Welcome to the Linguistics Program

The Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina is interdepartmental, with strong ties to anthropology; communication sciences and disorders; computer science and engineering; English language and literature; languages, literatures, and cultures; philosophy; and psychology. The Program’s core faculty teach most of the courses offered and direct graduate students in the Program. In addition to these core faculty, the Program has the support of consulting faculty on the Columbia campus, whose areas of expertise are in or related to linguistics, and who frequently serve on thesis and doctoral committees. It also has strong ties to the English Programs for Internationals.

Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology 2012 and Workshop on experimental methods and research tools

In the News:

(4/28/2012) Ceny Walker Graduate Fellowship awarded to LING PhD student Sandra Keller

We congratulate Linguistics PhD student Sandra Keller for being awarded the Ceny Walker Graduate Fellowship by the Walker Institute to support her study in France this summer ("Reimagining Gallo: Processes of linguistic identification in Brittany"). Congratulations! We wish you great success.

(3/27/2012) Wei Cheng - Graduate Student Day 2nd Place Winner

We congratulate Linguistics PhD student Wei Cheng for his second place award in today’s Graduate Student Day! His topic was “The Acquisition of English Lexical Stress by Advanced Chinese Speakers: An Optimality Theoretic Account;” Wei's presentation was Poster 3 in the Humanities session.

(3/27/2012) Fulbright scholarship awarded to LING MA student Ashley Tessarolo

We are pleased to announce that our own Ashley Tessarolo has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Brazil! (This is for the 2012-2013 school year, which in Brazil is February-November 2013.) Congratulations, Ashley!