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Richard P. Meier, Chair CAL 501, Mailcode B5100, Austin, TX 78712 • 512-471-1701

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.

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Students in Linguistics are busy studying what the presence of loan words indicates about the subsistence patterns of Amazonian natives, creating a standardized sentence recognition test for non-native speakers of English, watching popular movies to analyze the sociolinguistic implications of white characters using African American Vernacular English, and determining why your mother sometimes calls you by your sister's name.  You may be surprised to hear that graduate students are not the only ones doing these things.  Many undergraduates are involved in exciting and cutting edge research projects in a wide variety of linguistic fields.  And if you are an undergrad with an interest in linguistics, you could be doing research too.

For more information about undergraduate research opportunities, please follow this link.


News

Beyond the Iambic/Trochaic Law

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Megan Crowhurst awarded NSF grant to explore perceptual influences on the subjective grouping of rhythmic speech.

North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad

First round of linguistics competition for high school students to be held February 2.

In the News: Texas English Project

Linguistics Doctoral Candidate Kate Shaw Points Featured in the Austin American-Statesman.

Events

Tue • Feb 14

Language and Culture Job Talk - Armando...

BEN 2.104
4:00 PM

Mon • Feb 20

Language and Culture Job Talk - Rosa...

UTC 3.134
3:00 PM

Fri • Feb 24

Neurolinguistic Job Talk - Philip J....

UTC 1.132
12:00 PM

Mon • Feb 27

Language and Culture Job Talk - Sergio...

UTC 3.134
3:00 PM

Mon • Mar 26

Colloquium - Kevin McGowan (Rice...

UTC 3.134
3:00 PM
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