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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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
- Recent grad Peggy Renwick takes a job at U. of Georgia.
- Hsien Wu and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarship/The Liu Memorial Award for Nan Li
- C.V. Starr Award for Zhong Chen
- Nan Li to present at IACL 21 in Taipei
- Sarah Murray to present at SALT 23.
- Welcome to the world, Olivia Jiayang Chen!
- Recent grads Jiwon Yun and Seongyeon Ko have taken jobs at Stony Brook and CUNY.