Department of Linguistics

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NACLO 2022 Open Round at the University of Washington on January 27, 2022

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