University Resources
Aresty Research Center: The Aresty Reseach Center offers many research opportunities, assistance and support to students at Rutgers in a variety of fields.
Center for African Studies: The Center for African Studies provides research support for faculty and graduate students working in almost any discipline related to the languages, cultures, politics, and development of the African continent.
Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS)Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS): RuCCS is a vibrant, internationally-renowned center for research in Cognitive Science, fostering interdisciplinary communication and collaboration across the fields of linguistics, philosophy, psychology, computer science, biomedical engineering, and UMDNJ. The center hosts a regular colloquium series and a variety of other Cog Sci community-building events, sponsors a certificate in cognitive science for graduate students, offers courses for students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Some of our faculty have been active at RuCCS, including Profs. Kristen Syrett, Mark Baker, and Bruce Tesar.
The Language Center: The Language Center provides services such as conversation practice to students learning languages and support to teaching assistants in foreign languages. Languages covered include Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Korean, and Swahili, just to name a few.
Facilities and Resources for Graduate Students: Graduate students have access to a wide range of resources for research and professional development at Rutgers. The Linguistics Department provides students with meeting and work space.Many graduate students are also affiliated with labs in the department, which offer opportunities for independent research, collaboration, data analysis, and undergraduate mentoring.
Linguistics Faculty-Created Resources
African Anaphora Project: The purpose of the African Anaphora project, directed by Prof. Emeritus Ken Safir and funded by the NSF (BCS Award 1324404), was to collect linguistically rich data on anaphora on a wide array of African Languages.
Documenting Defaka & Nkoroo: The purpose of the Defaka & Nkoroo Language Documentation project, co-led by Prof. Akin Akinlabi and funded by the NSF (BCS Award 0553971), was to describe, record, and archive the grammar and tradititions of Defaka and Nkoroo, two endangered languages spoken in the Niger delta region of Southern Nigeria.
The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology: The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology, edited by Prof. Emeritus Paul de Lacy, contains a number of key articles presenting research in phonological theory, the study of the mental representation and computation of speech sounds. The website accompanying the book contains a full-text search, reading lists, and a variety of other resources (such as additional documents and audio) that supplement the text in the Handbook.
Rutgers Optimality Archive: The Rutgers Optimality Archive, pioneered by Prof. Emeritus Alan Prince, is a static repository and distribution point for research in OT and its conceptual affiliates. It contains over a thousand papers engaging and utilizing the OT framework, which were uploaded between 1993-2022.
