Brown Linguistics faculty and students study such topics in a wide range of languages from across the globe and using a wide range of empirical methodologies. Particular strengths of our program include the study of language variation (within a language, across languages, and within society), and the study of meaning, communication, mind and the role of information in the ways languages are structured.
Linguistics
Linguistics
The Brown Program in Linguistics is dedicated to the systematic study of languages as highly structured systems which speakers have unconsciously mastered and use for communication, social meaning and many other purposes.
Linguistics
The Brown Program in Linguistics is dedicated to the systematic study of languages as highly structured systems which speakers have unconsciously mastered and use for communication, social meaning and many other purposes.
Academics
Brown Linguistics offers AB and ScB Concentrations in Linguistics.
The Brown Program in Linguistics offers a range of courses across different areas of Linguistics.
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Jacobson Interviewed for Philosophy YouTube Channel
Professor of Linguistics Polly Jacobson was featured on the Friction YouTube channel in an interview about formal semantics.
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AnderBois and colleagues publish two new papers
Associate Professor AnderBois has two new papers, one in Cadernos de Etnolingüística co-authored with former visiting faculty member Chelsea Sanker, and one in Language and Linguistics Compass with undergrad alum Maksymilian Dąbkowski '19.5.
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Linguistics at NWAV!
Members of the Brown University Program in Linguistics recently attended the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference in Miami, Florida.
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Linguistics is currently housed on the ground floor of Arnold Lab at 91 Waterman St.
The Brown Linguistics community is made up of core faculty, staff, visiting professors and postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students and affiliate faculty.