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Undergraduate Program
The undergraduate program in language and linguistics is designed to offer
students multiple perspectives on the study of language: as a universal cognitive
faculty, as an interactive mechanism for human development and for
constructing social identities, as a spoken and written medium for cultural
expression, and as an object and means of philosophical reflection.
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Masters in Computational Linguistics
A two-year MA program in Computational Linguistics is offered to qualified students with a BA degree. The five-year combined BA/MA program
in Computational
Linguistics is offered
to undergraduate
students with either
Computer Science or
Linguistics
backgrounds.
Applications of the
field include include
automated text
analysis, speech
recognition,
information retrieval,
web search, machine
translation,
cryptography, and
computer security,
among others.
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About the Language and Linguistics Program |
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The concentration in language and linguistics gives 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.
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