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  4. Language Documentation MA

Language Documentation MA

1 Year On Campus Masters Program

University of Rochester

Program Overview

MA in the theory and practice of language documentation and description focusing on courses that provide training in linguistics and in the practice, methodology and technology of LDD. Language documentation encompasses a group of activities centered on the collection of naturally occurring as well as experimentally elicited primary data, such as audio and video recordings and written language data; language description uses this and other sources of data to analyze linguistic structures that underlie language and cognitive categories.

Program Key Stats

$50772 (Annual cost)
$ 60



36 %

Eligibility Criteria


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660
7.5
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Additional Information & Requirements

College transcripts, Personal statement, Three letters of recommendation, Writing sample

Career Options

  • Law and human rights
  • community activists
  • health organizations
  • Google and translation work on minority language groups
  • NGO s (NonGovernmental Organizations)
  • Indigenous Rights activists
  • museums

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