About the Department of Linguistics
Since 1967 the University of Toronto has been a centre for graduate training and research, offering funded MA and PhD programs. We are a vibrant community of internationally-recognized researchers, and a hub for linguistics in the greater Toronto area and Canada more broadly. Our 28 graduate faculty members span three campuses. We train students in the following areas of concentration:
- Formal Linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics)
- Sociolinguistics (Language Variation and Change, Dialectology, Language Documentation, Language Revitalization)
- Cognitive Science (Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, Computational Linguistics)
The Department also has strengths in experimental linguistics, research at interfaces, fieldwork, and understudied languages of Canada and the world. Find out more about the research underway in the department here.
See below for more information on how to apply to our program, available funding, and program requirements.
Note that we do not offer a specialization in applied linguistics. If this is your area of interest, you might consider the Languages and Literacies Education programs hosted by the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). We also do not offer a specialization in Speech Language Pathology. If this is your area of interest, you might consider the SLP program hosted by the Speech-Language Pathology department at the Faculty of Medicine.