MSC PROGRAMME
in the
Department of Linguistics
at
The UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH
Speech, Language, and Computation
. . . including basic computing skills, PROLOG,
phonetics, phonology, syntax, formal language theory, formal semantics,
neural computing, psycholinguistics, statistics and experimental design,
speech signal analysis and processing, automatic speech recognition and
synthesis, computational linguistics, machine translation . . .
Academic teaching staff include: R. Cann (formal semantics of natural
languages, functional categories in syntax; Indo-European languages),
E. G. Bard (psycholinguistics, perception and production of speech in
dialogue), J. R. Hurford (evolution of language, syntax and semantics in
automatic speech recognition; Arabic), S. D. Isard (dialogue structure,
intonation, automatic speech synthesis and recognition), L. Kelly
(psycholinguistics, acquired language disorders; Spanish), D. R. Ladd
(prosody, phonological theory, intonation in speech synthesis; Romanian),
J. E. Miller (spoken and written language, non-standard English tense
aspect, case; Russian, Bulgarian)
A one year course assessed by essays and dissertation, the M.Sc is taught
within the Department of Linguistics and its Centre for Speech Technology
Research, which have extensive computing and laboratory facilities. The
Department maintains close ties with the Human Communication Research
Centre, and shares some teaching with the Centre for Cognitive Science.
Application has been made to EPSRC to continue a quota of Advanced Course
Studentships, for which EC residents with Honours degrees or equivalent
experience are eligible.
Applications deadline: 10th March for October entry
Contact: Postgraduate Admissions Committee, Department of Linguistics,
The University of Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building, George Square,
Edinburgh EH8 9LL, UK;
For further information: tel. (+44) 131 650 3961, fax (+44) 131 650 3962,
email ethel@ling.ed.ac.uk
or see the Linguistics home page http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/