Department of Linguistics

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Message from Chair Richard Wright

In September 2019, we welcomed two new assistant professors. This year, as I prepare to begin my second five-year term as departmental... Read more »
Historic family takes part in Pacific Northwest English Study

Since PNWE’s beginnings in 2007, the general approach has been to include folks in families that have had a longstanding presence in the Northwest. A... Read more »
Featured Language: Inuktitut

panikpit ilinniaqtitsijiŋa nanurmit nirijaulauqpa? Linguists study languages which the average American rarely comes into contact with. Identifying... 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.