Hi everyone. I've been lurking here for a while, but this is my first post. I have a BA in English (Language and Literature) and an MA Linguistics in progress. I did a small amount of language acquisition in my undergrad, which I really enjoyed, so it's likely to be the topic of my MA dissertation this year. But, I don't think I've ever seen anybody on here say it was their research interest. Is it not particularly common, or is this often covered under one of the thereotical subheadings, such as syntax?
Also, I'll be looking at applying for a PhD in 2016 (ideally in the US) and many of the usual PhD Linguistics programmes list language acquisition as a research area. But I've also found some universities cover this area in a different department, leading to different awards (PhD Education, or PhD Educational Linguistics, etc). Any tips for places I should research which cover the topic but don't label it as theoretical/experimental linguistics? It's child/first language acquisition I'm interested in (possibly veering into clinical, such as SLI) so I don't want to get too close to pedagogy or second language acquisition.