Welcome to Linguistics!

UT's Department of Linguistics is committed to teaching and research in linguistics, the scientific and humanistic study of human language. Our research examines form and meaning in a wide variety of the world's languages, including signed and spoken languages. We study language as part of the biological and cognitive endowment of our species. We use computational techniques to probe the structure of human languages. We design experiments to understand how children learn language. And we describe and document highly-endangered languages, especially indigenous languages of the Americas. For more information about us, follow this link.

Linguistics 2012 Summer Courses

This year, linguistics students will have an unprecedented opportunity to fulfill major requirements during their summer.  Of the five specifically required major courses, only LIN 306: Introduction to the Study of Language has been consistently offered during a summer session.  For the past two summers, our department has taught LIN 345: Language Change and Language Variation. For the first time, the Linguistics Department will be offering not only these two classes, but also LIN 344K: Phonetics: Production and Perception of Speech Sounds.  LIN 322: Gypsy Language and Culture will also offer linguistics majors the opportunity to simultaneously fill a major requirement and a Liberal Arts core requirement.  These classes will provide students valuable learning experiences and provide an opportunity to fulfill degree requirements. For a description of theses courses follow this link.