Department of Linguistics

The Linguistics main office will be operating online through April 24. Please contact staff and advisors who are available Monday through Friday 8 AM to 5 PM.

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Study abroad program in Ljubljana, Slovenia: AI & Humanities

Information on AI & Humanities: Language, Literature, and Ethics, featuring Linguistics faculty Gašper Beguš and Nina Beguš, a PhD Candidate in... Read more »
Wenjun Ma presents at at the Fourth Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium

Wenjun Ma is an undergraduate student working with Dr. Naja Ferjan Ramírez in the Language Development and Processing Lab. On Saturday 11/23, he gave... Read more »
Emily M. Bender interview about AI appears on Inside Science

Emily M. Bender was recently interviewed by Chris Gorski of "Inside Science". The interview, entitled "A Linguistic Lens on Artificial Intelligence"... Read more »
NACLO 2020 Invitational Round at the University of Washington on March 5

NACLO is an international contest in which middle school and high school students solve linguistics puzzles. No prior knowledge of linguistics or... Read more »

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Our department is located within the College of Arts and Sciences, and offers degrees in General and Computational Linguistics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The department's primary interests lie strongly in grammatical theory (syntax, phonology, and semantics), and in phonetics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, and second language acquisition theory.