sande570

Hi Nicholassss, I am a graduate student at UC Berkeley, and while I agree with others on this thread the Berkeley is different from the other universities on your list, I am happy to tell you more about those differences in a private email. Feel free to ask me specific questions here, or to email me at my username at berkeley.edu. As for your specific areas of interest (semantics, pragmatics, syntax), we have some phenomenal syntax professors, namely Line Mikkelsen and Peter Jenks, who are both great teachers and excellent to work with. We also recently hired Amy Rose Deal, who does syntax and semantics, and is an enormous asset to our department. All three combine fieldwork and theoretical linguistics, and Line Mikkelsen also does a lot of corpus work. As for psycholinguistics, Professors Suzanne Gahl and Keith Johnson co-teach a brilliant psycholinguistics course and advise many students in that area. I'm happy to answer questions about any of the other subfields or professors at Berkeley as well!