<p>I know both have a good program but does one have the edge over the other? Particularly for Romance Linguistics and Phonetics.</p>
<p>What about the cities? I am not into partying and bars so the club/bar scene means nothing to me....I am interested in safetly, affordability and availibility of decent single person housing, public transport as well as walkibility of the area.</p>
<p>THX!</p>
<p>McGill is the place for you in terms of safety, availbility of decent single person housing and for your course too. Toronto is just too crowded and is more known for its engineering and sciences program.</p>
<p>Toronto's a fantastic city, but unfortunately housing is more expensive here than in Montreal. If that's a worry for you, go to McGill.</p>
<p>wait...so McGill sucks at the sciences and engineering, and rocks at the liberal arts???</p>
<p>definitely McGill.... </p>
<p>To compare, just look at the number of faculty in top US universities from McGill. Graduate from McGill linguistics, and you will find a faculty position immediately in a US univ.</p>
<p>McGill is the top linguistics program in the world in terms of acquisition (both first and second). I would love to go there!! They have many famous faculty. In sla. for example, they have Lydia White, who is known to be the top SLA person in the world!!!</p>
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<p>False dilemma. University of Toronto being good in science doesn't prevent McGill from excelling in that domain too (and it does). But it is true that McGill's engineering isn't particularly great (not that it sucks or anything).</p>
<p>But, back to the OP: McGill is a better choice than University of Toronto for Linguistics and Montreal is more affordable and walkable than Toronto (well, except on certain days of "winter" where it's alll a mix of ice, water, slush, pellets and salt everywhere, but even then there's that mythical "underground city").</p>
<p>McGill for sure... This is not even a question. McGill is one of the top programs in Linguistics (probably one of the top three in the world).</p>
<p>They have many famous people in acquisition: Lydia White, Heather Goad, Yosef Grodzinsky and Andrea Gualmini. I guess that in the world they have the top program in acquisition. Their syntax is also very good; they have Lisa Travis first of all. </p>
<p>And if you look at the linguistics faculty of leading universities in the US, you will find McGill graduates more than you would find Stanford, UCLA, etc. graduates.</p>
<p>I chose McGill over Cornell for linguistics, and I am glad with that. :)</p>
<p>Pls pardon my igorance, but can someone enlightened me on linguistics? What do you actually study? It's sounds pretty artsy.</p>
<p>McGill>U Toronto (everything except engineering)</p>
<p>In linguistics, if you study "theoretical linguistics," then you study mathematical things to a great extent. It is syntax, morphology, semantics, and phonetics and phonology. And it is kind of between philosophy and mathematics for those of you who really have no idea.</p>
<p>You can also study areas like "language acquisition" and "sociolinguistics." In the former, you would look into how the human brain acquires first and second languages, while in the latter, you would study how different sections of the society speak the language. For ex. while versus black working class people... Do they have exactly the same accent, dialect, etc...? Or does someone from Ohio have the same accent as someone from Alaska?</p>
<p>On another point, I would also say McGill is far better than UofT in linguistics, especially at the grad level. McGill has one of the leading linguistics departments in the world. However, UofT's linguistics is also quite good.</p>
<p>Which school has a stronger undergrad program in linguistics, especially theoretical linguistics? Would an American student with 12 years of Spanish (but very bright in both math/science and writing/social sciences/debate) be at a disadvantage at McGill because she doesn’t speak French?</p>