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Amalia Skilton

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-5688

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

For me to consider your application as the primary supervisor, there needs to be a reasonable fit between my research interests and yours. The fit is close enough if:
- You are interested in an Indigenous language of the Americas
OR
- You are interested in children’s acquisition of an Indigenous language anywhere in the world.

If one of the above applies to you, send me an email introducing yourself and your proposed PhD project in maximum two paragraphs (300 words). This will allow me to see if the research fit is close enough that I’d be willing to read a longer proposal. Do not send your full proposal.

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Biography

I’m a field linguist and linguistic anthropologist, meaning that I study how people use language in interaction across cultures. I’m especially interested in child-caregiver interaction, language acquisition, pragmatics (word meaning in context), and documentation of endangered and Indigenous languages. 

My research in a nutshell

I study language use in interaction across cultures and the lifespan. This focus leads to interests in first language acquisition, pragmatics, and language documentation.

All of my research is based on my own fieldwork in the Amazon Basin, where I have spent over 26 months working with speakers of Ticuna (isolate; Peru, Brazil, Colombia) and other Indigenous languages, such as Máíhɨ̃ki (formerly known as Orejón; Tukanoan; Peru). Because these languages are endangered and underdescribed, I complement my core research on deixis and language development with studies of phonology, morphology, and syntax.

Education/Academic qualification

Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Spatial and non-spatial deixis in Cushillococha Ticuna, University of California, Berkeley

… → 2019

External positions

Klarman Fellow, Cornell University

2021 → 2024

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Texas at Austin

2019 → 2021

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