The Department offers the following graduate programs:

The Department’s stature as a center of research and graduate training derives from the research productivity of its award-winning faculty, its close supervision of doctoral students and its strong record of grant activity. CU Linguistics MA and PhD graduates have taken diverse career paths in academics and industry. This page lists placements of recent PhD graduates. Doctoral students in the Department may specialize in any of the following areas:

  • Discourse-functional Syntax
  • Corpus Syntax
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Conversation Analysis
  • Native American Linguistics
  • Language Documentation and Revitalization
  • Phonology/Computational Phonology
  • Experimental Phonetics/Laboratory Phonology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Language Development
  • Construction-based grammar
  • Typology