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 »
Faculty involvement in Linguistic Society of America

The Linguistic Society of America (LSA), founded in 1924, is the national organization for U.S. linguists and premier advocacy organization in the U.... 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 »
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 »

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Welcome

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.