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Linguistics
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Think linguists just speak lots of languages? Think again. Linguists are scientists who study language. Language is one of the most complex cognitive tasks that humans engage in, yet it is used effortlessly and subconsciously and is acquired by infants with no formal instruction. How can you effortlessly speak and understand without even being aware of what you are doing? As a student of linguistics, you will explore the answers to this question and many others.
The department also offers a Cognitive Science major.
AREAS OF ST91原创Y
- Endangered Languages
- Language Acquisition
- Neurolinguistics
- Phonology and Phonetics
- Psycholinguistics
- Syntax and Semantics
CAREER OPTIONS听听
- Data Analyst
- Film and Television
- Government
- Interpreter
- Language Teacher
- Library/Information Science
- Linguist
- Professor
- Psychologist
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
- Cognitive Science
- Computer Science
- Law School
- Linguistics
- Psychology
- TESOL
What鈥檚 special about this program?
As a student of linguistics, you will learn the formal properties of language: sound systems, how words and sentences are put together and how meaning is computed from the parts. You will explore the diversity of languages across the globe and learn about their historical development (for example, did you know that English and Sanskrit are descended from a single language spoken 6,000听years ago in Asia?). You will also explore how infants acquire language, how language is represented in the brain and used in real time and how language is used in social contexts.
Get Involved
Undergraduate Research
The Phonology/Phonetics Lab
The Experimental Psycholinguistics Lab
Child鈥檚 Play, Learning, and Development Lab
The Language and Cognition Lab
Sample curriculum
| ENGL110 | Seminar in Composition 听 |
| LING101 | Introduction to Linguistics 听 |
| LING202 | Science of Language 听 |
| MATH113 听 | Contemporary Mathematics (or Higher) 听 |
UNIV101听 听 | First Year Experience |
| 听 | University Breadth Courses 听 |
| 听 | Elective Courses 听 |
| CGSC170 听 | Introduction to Cognitive Science 听 |
| LING403 | Introduction to Phonology 听 |
| LING404 | Structure of Language 听 |
| PHIL205 | Logic 听 |
| 听 | University Breadth Course 听 |
| 听 | Elective Courses |
| LING418 | Meaning and Language Use 听 |
| 听 | LING Elective Courses 听 |
| 听 | Elective Courses 听 |
| 听 | University Multicultural Course 听 |
| 听 | Discovery Learning Experience 听 |
| 听 | Study Abroad |
| CGSC485 | Seminar in Cognitive Science 听 |
| LING 480 | Sociolinguistics 听 |
| 听 | University Breadth Courses 听 |
| 听 | Elective Courses |
