IGERT: Unifying the Science of Language

几代人以来，揭示人类语言的本质向一系列学科的研究人员提出了挑战。突破性的进展需要高度多学科但又综合的研究努力，需要一种能够跨越传统学科边界工作的新型语言科学家。这一IGERT奖促进了这类科学家的发展，进一步发展了约翰霍普金斯大学首创的以问题为中心的培训方法。通过计算和实验轨道计划，学员将学习运用语言学、实验心理学、计算机科学、认知神经科学和数学的多种方法和视角来解决语言领域的单一问题。通过一个国际组成部分，受训人员将在多个学科的外国先驱的实验室获得经验，并从事英语以外的语言研究。语言学正在经历一场革命性的变革，它的视野正在扩大，以涵盖语言的全部认知科学。IGERT的受训人员将通过他们的研究生工作和以后的工作，在完成这一转变以及弥合目前分裂语言科学的一些基本分歧方面发挥至关重要的作用。统一的语言科学所产生的突破将对语言教育产生重大的长期影响。在短期内，受过计算训练的科学家将把洞察力从语言理论转移到语言工程，从而影响商业和安全技术。通过一套特殊的外展机制，不仅针对博士申请者，还针对他们的教师导师和更广泛的本科生群体，该项目促进了代表性不足的少数族裔参与科学研究。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。

For generations, uncovering the nature of human language has challenged researchers across a range of disciplines. Breakthrough progress requires a highly multidisciplinary yet integrated research effort, necessitating a new kind of language scientist capable of working across traditional disciplinary boundaries. This IGERT award facilitates the development of such scientists, further developing the Problem-Centered Training approach pioneered at Johns Hopkins. Through the programs Computational and Experimental Tracks, trainees will learn to deploy the diversity of methods and perspectives of linguistics, experimental psychology, computer science, cognitive neuroscience and mathematics in the attack of a single problem in the domain of language. Through an international component, trainees will gain experience in the laboratories of foreign pioneers in multiple disciplines, and will engage in research on languages other than English. Linguistics has been undergoing a revolutionary transformation, expanding its horizons to embrace the full cognitive science of language. Trainees in this IGERT will, through their graduate work and beyond, play a vital role in completing this transformation, and in bridging a number of fundamental schisms currently dividing language science. Breakthroughs arising from a unified science of language will have major long-term impact on language education. In the short term, scientists trained in the Computational Track will transfer insight from linguistic theory to language engineering, impacting commercial and security technology. Through a suite of special outreach mechanisms targeting not only Ph.D. applicants, but also their faculty mentors and a broader undergraduate population, the program promotes the involvement of underrepresented minorities in scientific research. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.