Linguistics at Cornell
Linguistics as a formal field of study at Cornell dates back to 1946. Ours is a diverse but highly interactive department. We offer one of the top Indo-European comparative linguistics programs in the country, and also have a leading-edge computational linguistics lab, a phonetics lab, and active research groups on topics including the syntax/prosody interface and the relation of language spread to rice agriculture. Cornell linguists do in-depth empirical work on languages ranging from Cheyenne to Yiddish. Our research emphasizes the theoretical bases for that work, in syntax, semantics, phonology, phonetics, and historical linguistics.
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Course Descriptions
Fall '11 Course Roster
Spring '12 Course Roster
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Research
Computational Linguistics

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Phonetics

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Interface Research Group
Studying the interfaces between phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Learn more about this group.
Events
News
- Honors thesis presentations, May 8.
- Christina Bjorndahl presents at CUNY Phonology Forum.
- Cornellians at the LSA
- Chung-Shieh "Ken" Shan to give invited talk at the 18th Amsterdam Colloquium
- Marisa Boston takes job at Nuance Communications
- Cornell University Doctoral/Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship
- Michael Weiss in California