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Hi Scarecrow, I can understand that you wouldn't want to do the GRE again, but my impression is that linguistics departments take a closer look at your quantitative score than most humanities program. So you may want to reconsider re-taking the GRE even though your interests are in a more sociolinguistic/anthropological vein. Some departments in their selecting process may rule out some candidates based on these kind of numerical makers before even considering other aspects of the candidate (especially any school with strong computational linguistics). On the otherhand, now that you have so much fieldwork and a good grad GPA you may not need to worry about the GRE score so much. So I would reapply to any of the schools that really fit your interests.

Hi guys, this is my first post on Grad Cafe. I'm preparing grad applications for linguistics. My big problem is that my specific field doesn't really exist yet and so it is proving very difficult to find people working in my field or at least adjacently. Mostly my work involves devising methods/experiments in developing artificial (but nonetheless organic) languages. My current case study is dance notation. Mostly this involves studying language evolution, self-organization & artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and general diachronic theories. My current list is rough preference: 1. University of Edinburgh (already accept here in the 1 year Msc. Language evolution program but re-applying for the MPhil in Language Evolution) 2. McGill University 3. NYU (lots of good computational work and access to dancers at the TISCH school of the Arts) 4. Penn (two guys at Penn who specialize in Language Evolution, a rarity outside of Edinburgh) 5. UC Berkeley (Berkeley and Stanford offer good opportunities for interdisciplinary research/training) 6. Stanford 7. Chicago Others I'm also looking into: MIT University of Massachusetts University of Michegan Oxford/Cambridge University College London University of Toronto The Unviersity of Edinburgh is by far my top choice, it is, as far as I can tell, the only school that focuses on language evolution, and their interdisciplinary networks with the departments of Philosophy and Psychology produces a lot good cog sci work. But Edinburgh doesn't have a dance department and is rather isolated from any dance scene, which is problematic for my experiments since I need dancer subjects. I'm especially looking for anyone working on Language Evolution or schools that encourage combining interdisciplinary work outside their linguistics department. Or anyone who works on non-traditional models of human "language." Any suggesting, comments, insights are very much appreciated. Nice to meet you all!