Department of Linguistics

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ASL Program

Update on planned UW-L’Université de Poitiers exchange program An opportunity to learn more about one of the historical underpinnings of ASL A one-... Read more »
Reflecting Back to Head Forward

As we head into a new academic year, we reflect on the successes of the past year and the impact our students have had on the community at large.... Read more »
ASL Program

Update on planned UW-L’Université de Poitiers exchange program An opportunity to learn more about one of the historical underpinnings of ASL A one-... Read more »
UW Linguistics welcomes Myriam Lapierre

Our newest faculty member is quadrilingual in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish. She grew up in Canada, went to graduate school in the U.S.,... Read more »
Jiahui Huang, Memorial Service

Jiahui Huang, linguist and teacher, passed away in a hiking accident at Mt. Rainier National Park on June 15, 2021 at the age of 29. He was born on... 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.