The PhD in Linguistics at MIT is one of the world’s most respected programs in theoretical linguistics. These project ideas bridge theory and practice across phonology, semantics, syntax, acquisition, and computational models — advancing the science of language.
Syntactic Movement in Head-Final Languages
Cross-Linguistic Variability in Scope Ambiguities
Computational Models of Sentence Parsing in Real Time
Tone and Phonation Interaction in Under-Documented Languages
Formal Semantics of Plurality and Distributivity
Prosody-Based Disambiguation in Spoken Language Processing
Minimalist Syntax in Heritage Language Acquisition
Neural Correlates of Syntactic Priming in Bilinguals
Phonological Typology and Implicational Universals
Language Modeling with Probabilistic Grammars
Interface Between Morphology and Semantics in Compound Nouns
Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Harmony Systems
Lexical Semantics in Verb-Argument Structure Alternations
Wh-Movement and Island Constraints in Sign Languages
Computational Typology Using Language Embeddings
Real-Time Speech Error Detection Using NLP Pipelines
Argument Structure Mismatches in Translation Corpora
Syntax-Semantics Interface in Event Structure Encoding
Code-Switching Patterns in Multilingual Social Media Texts
Child Language Acquisition of Case Marking Systems
Psycholinguistic Study of Processing Ambiguity in Complex Sentences
Constraint-Based Phonology with Gradient Acceptability Judgments
Syntactic Theory Validation Using Experimental Syntax Data
Cross-Linguistic Study of Anaphora Resolution Strategies
Semantic Role Labeling in Low-Resource Language Corpora
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