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"A theme of the Harrison College Scholar Program is that our students are independent but not isolated."
Read MoreOur faculty are interested in many different aspects of language: how we speak, understand and learn language; how languages change over time; how computers can understand and generate language; and how social and cultural contexts influence language. Undergraduate and graduate students study these and other aspects of language through our diverse course offerings. Our academic programs allow students the flexibility to develop programs of study specific to their personal goals and interests.
Linguistics attempts to answer such questions as:
Students interested in learning more about linguistics and its relationship to other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to take Linguistics 1101, a general overview that is a prerequisite for most other courses in the field or one of the first-year writing seminars offered in linguistics (on topics such as metaphor, language processing and disorders, English outside the box and the language instinct). Linguistics 1101 and our other introductory courses fulfill various distribution requirements of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Most of our 1100- and 2200-level courses have no prerequisites. These cover various topics in linguistics or the historical development of particular languages:
"A theme of the Harrison College Scholar Program is that our students are independent but not isolated."
Read MoreCornell University's undergraduate linguistics association, The UnderLings, presents its seventeenth annual undergraduate research colloquium. By facilitating communication and discussion between researchers, the conference aims to promote undergraduate research at all levels throughout the linguist...
Read MoreInterest in ASL is growing, prompting Cornell to increase opportunities for students to explore the language.
Read MoreOn Thursday, March 16, join the Cornell community to make a difference for students on Cornell Giving Day.
Read MoreTwo recently-hired faculty in the Department of Linguistics are expanding the use of computer modeling and experimental techniques as they forge new paths of research in the discipline.
Read MoreSireemas Maspong has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She will be working with Prof. James Kirby, Professor of Spoken Language Processing. She will be joining the department in April...
Read MoreFrancesco Burroni Accepts Postdoctoral Fellow Position at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS), LMU Munich
Read MoreThe two are among five winners of the inaugural Robert S. Harrison ’76 Recent Alumni Volunteer Awards.
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