funchaku

Thanks, guys! To respond to a point brought by fuzzylogician, namely, why I would apply to schools without a Lang Acq person in the dept-- the places I am considering (e.g., USC, Harvard) have people in the Psychology Dept who work on language development. Here's my next question. Is it appropriate to mention my hopes of collaborating with someone in Psychology (in addition to a POI in Linguistics, ofc) in the statement?

Hi, I plan to apply to PhD programs for Fall 2013 (so perhaps this may be slightly premature?) and I was hoping for some tips about writing my personal statement. I work on language acquisition (specifically syntactic acquisition) now and hope to continue along these lines. However, I do plan on applying to a couple of places that don't really have acquisition people working there. Keeping this in mind, how specific should I be about my research interests/plans? Do I mention POI(s) in the statement? Any and all suggestions will be appreciated!