All PhD students must produce and orally defend a passing preliminary paper, which should be a research paper focused on analysis of some aspect of language. It is meant to be an opportunity for the student to develop and demonstrate, early in their career, the ability to produce original research, generally involving analyzing language data and drawing conclusions from them, as appropriate in the student’s chosen subfield. The prelim paper must be submitted to the committee by February 1 and defended orally on February 15Ìýof the student’s second year in the program.
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