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Thank you very much for your answer. In this year and a half I will try to get more specific ideas and read articles online. The idea of the M.A. is good and I was thinking about it too, but it is expensive unless I get an assistanship or solve my problems in order to be able to work in the US. Nice to hear the point of view of someone who has been in a similar situation.

Ok, I may not count it in my LOR list then . What about my question on journals? For example, next summer I would like to present a paper about a small community in the region I live in that speaks a mix of Italian and Greek. This dialect / language is also endangered because the number of speakers is dropping. What I want to do is to interview as many speakers as possible, understand how the dialect has changed in recent times, why it is disappearing and analyze with softwares like praat the differences in their vowel system from those of nearby towns and standard Italian.

I wrote that I taught Italian in a private language school in the US, so yes I had this professor as a student, I do not see the odd part in this. I can try to do my best. If you have any suggestions about journals to follow, or where I could publish my research in the future, it would be a start. Also, I work 30 hours a week and attend a university which is on the other side of the country, 9 hours by car, I took unpaid days off to go to do exams. I think I am dedicated in what I do and I know how to work my back off, I think this must count something, right? I do want to try be ready for when I will have to send my application, so this is why I am asking for help too. Ciao grazie! Studio linguistica all Università di Pavia linguistica ma come ho detto sono lavoratore a tempo pieno (a Bari) e vengo a Pavia solo a dare gli esami. Purtroppo l'università italiana non da basi e fondamenti per il lavoro di dottorato ho scoperto quindi finisci il tuo MA senza sapere come si faccia ricerca o scriva un paper. dato che finiró per settembre dell'anno prossimo I miei studi ho tempo fino a Febbraio 2016 per sceivere qualcosa e sperare venga accettato. ho già cercato alcuni call for papers in Europa. Le università le ho scelte sotto suggerimento di amici e perchè ho famiglia nel Queens varie città. Congrats anyway Finally, University of Texas is one of those University that offers an M.A. + PhD course if I well remember.

I am preparing some research on local dialects in my area which I will try to present next year. I wrote a thesis for my B.A. but it is garbage. Therefore the papers I want to prepare for next summer will be my first kind of real research. Regarding the LORS, I will have three or four if I can include my boss at the school. There is a retired American professor with a good reputation who is willing to write aletter for me (he was my student). Finally there are my professor of Sociolinguistics and the phonology one. They are both experienced professors with publications but I do not really know how much reliable foreign professors look to them. I could go for L2 acquisition or bilingualism to tie my knowledge in those languages as you say, but sociolinguistics and language variation is surely my first interest.

Hello, I will start this topic by saying that my situation is kind of peculiar. I am an Italian-American MA student who was born and raised in Italy but bilingual. I am 24 and I already have one year of experience as a full-time English teacher in a private language school and three months as an Italian intern teacher in Miami. My undergrad GPA in foreign languages (English and Polish) should be something like 3.0 or 3.2 max while my MA will be more or less the same I think. I already have a GRE score (303) and a TOEFL score (101). I had to take the TOEFL mainly because, even though my family is American and my ancestors for three generations helped build the country, I am not recognized as an American due to bureaucratic reasons (lol). I am therefore an international student and this lowers my chances of acceptance by a lot. I am here to ask you if, according to my working experience, education and situation, I could be a valid candidate for a PhD job in any university. I want to apply to NYU, Stony Brook, Amherst and Kansas university. My main passion is sociolinguistics but I could accept a position for phonetics and phonology. Or honestly any position lol. Should I mention my situation in the letters of intent? Should I try instead to go for one of those MA + PhD programs? Can the fact that I have studied different languages help? [French (even though I forgot most of it), Polish (Basic level), Spanish (Medium maybe)] Thanks and have a nice day.