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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.

ANNOUNCEMENT: new 5th-year Masters in Computational Linguistics

An exciting new graduate-studies opportunity was just 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)

Next talk: April 10 - Hans Boas, University of Texas at Austin – Identifying semantically relevant units of meaning.
10am, in Volen 101, with refreshments served at 9:45am

Language and Linguistics Mini-Conferences

Students present their work in forums open to the public.
(Full information here)

April 29, 3pm, – Volen 201.
Mini-Conference in Pragmatics and Discourse

May 1, 11:30am, – Volen 101.
Mini-Conference in Language Acquisition and Development

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