Department · vaiu-hum-ling-*
The scientific study of human language — its structure, meaning, acquisition, variation, and computation — bridging theoretical, experimental, and computational approaches.
Research areas
Faculty directory
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Syntax
Syntactic theory, comparative & generative grammar, and morphosyntax.
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Phonetics & Phonology
Phonological theory, experimental phonetics, and prosody & speech production.
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Semantics & Pragmatics
Formal semantics, pragmatics & discourse, and philosophy of meaning.
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Psycholinguistics & Acquisition
Language processing, first & second language acquisition, and neurolinguistics.
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Computational Linguistics
Natural language processing, corpus methods, and computational models of grammar.
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Sociolinguistics & Historical Linguistics
Language variation & change, historical-comparative linguistics, and language documentation & typology.
