The Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies offers both a Master of Arts by Research and a Doctor of Philosophy by Research for interested students.

The graduate programme in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies is dedicated to producing postgraduates in linguistics who will be able to demonstrate expertise in one or more areas within the field. The successful graduates will also have proven themselves to be effective and creative researchers. To that end, requirements for the programme include both core courses and focused coursework, as well as a thesis (see below or click the tabs on the left for more details).

Our graduate programme is primarily oriented towards the PhD degree, and we envisage enrolling only a small number of students for the Master's Degree. Because of this, the Division will only consider applicants with a strong background in Linguistics.

In the first year of their studies, students are required to read a number of advanced courses in Linguistics. These will provide them with core knowledge and training in formulating research questions. The choice of courses will be in consultation with the supervisor and the graduate programme coordinator, taking into account the student's academic background and research interests.

In the second and third years it is expected that the students will be conducting their field work and/or data collection and will be further enhancing their research skills. In the last year of the programme students will concentrate on writing up their thesis.

The Division is committed to developing the graduate students’ teaching skills alongside their research abilities. From the second year onwards students will be given the opportunity to assist in the teaching of courses run by the Division’s faculty members.

Available research areas include:

• Bilingualism and Multilingualism
• Child Language
• Chinese Linguistics
• Computational Linguistics
• Conversation Analysis
• Language Acquisition
• Language Attitudes and Identity
• Language Contact
• Language and Gender
• Language Description, Documentation and Typology
• Language Maintenance and Language Shift
• Language Planning and Policy
• Minority and Endangered Languages
• Morphology
• Phonology and Speech Prosody
• Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics
• Semantics
• Syntax
• World Englishes

Interested students please contact the Division for more information on admission requirements.

Please visit the main Graduate by Research website for more information on the graduate studies programme in HSS: http://www.hss.ntu.edu.sg/ProspectiveStudents/Graduate/Pages/hssgp.html

Information on admission requirements, academic year, application procedures information on tuition fees can be found at the following links:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/Services/Academic/Pages/default.aspx
http://admissions.ntu.edu.sg/graduate/Pages/default.aspx