CSAAL hosts Summer Dialect Research Program
August 20, 2019
The Center for the Study of African American Language recently hosted the Summer Dialect Research Project (SDRP), co-directed by Lisa Green (Linguistics) and Brendan O'Connor (Information and...
Position in Formal Syntax
August 19, 2019
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a tenure-track position in formal syntax at the assistant professor level, starting September 1,...
Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC)
ILC N458
1:00 pm to 2:15 pm
Colloquium with Laura McPherson, Dartmouth College
ILC, N400
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Colloquium with Thomas Graf, Stony Brook University
ILC, N400
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Colloquium with Juliet Stanton, New York University
ILC, N400
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
What is Linguistics?
Linguistics is the systematic study of human language.
Linguists are interested in language for its own sake, as a complex product of the human mind. They are also interested in how language develops in children, how it changes over time, and how it is used in human society.
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