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Language and Linguistics Program

The concentration in language and linguistics is designed to give students a foundation in the theory of language and its relationship to allied fields of inquiry. The concentration emphasizes the approach of generative grammar, which attempts to describe formally the nature of a speaker's knowledge of his or her native language and place this knowledge in a psychological and biological framework. In the last 30 years, this approach to the study of language has had a profound influence on fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and computer science, as well as the linguist's traditional concerns with modern and classical languages and with linguistic universals.

NEW 5th-year Masters in Computational Linguistics

An exciting new graduate-studies opportunity has been created at Brandeis!
The five-year BA/MA in Computational Linguistics is accepting senior and junior students to begin their fourth or fifth year of this track in the Fall 2008.
We welcome those with a background in Computer Science (no Linguistics), or Linguistics (no CoSci), or in both, or in neither!

For information, please see Computational Linguistics Masters webpage,
or contact James Pustejovsky at jamesp [AT] cs [DOT] brandeis [DOT] edu

Language and Linguistics Speaker Series

Professors and graduate students from other universities talk to students and faculty about their research. (Full information here)

Watch this space for Fall talk schedule!