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At Rutgers, research in the core areas of phonology, syntax, and semantics includes work on several Romance and Germanic languages, as well as languages spoken all over the world. Our faculty have research programs focused on languages spoken on every continent, including native languages of the Americas (Kalaallisut, Quechua), African Languages (Yoruba, Kinande, Ju|’hoanse), Asian languages, (Hindi, Korean) and languages of Australia and New Zealand (Warlpiri, Māori). This research also leads to fruitful work in crosslinguistic comparisons and language typologies. Faculty research interests also include phonetics, morphology, language acquisition, lexical representation, pragmatics, the syntax-semantics interface, and philosophy of language. Each of these areas of interest is typically studied by more than one person, and from several different vantage points. For example, at Rutgers the study of language acquisition ranges from the computational problem of understanding how languages can be learnable at all to experimental and corpus-based research in child language learning. The university has vigorous research centers that provide structure and support for scholars engaged in interdisciplinary work. The Rutgers Center for African Studies includes researchers from all over the university who share an interest in scientific, cultural, and linguistic study related to Africa. The Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RUCCS) brings together linguists, philosophers, psychologists, and computer scientists to study computation in the many ways it is instantiated, in both humans (e.g., language, vision) and machines. Many projects of the Linguistics and Cognitive Science faculty have been awarded long-term funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF). More informally, the lively intellectual life of the department has led to the formation of several smaller research groups, which are more focused on a particular subfield of interest to faculty and students. In this rich environment, new ideas that lead to research projects are always being generated, and graduate students find many opportunities for independent projects as well as research assistantships.
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