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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Linguistics program charts its own course apart from CLPS department
The independent program boasts increased course offerings and new faculty.
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Uriel Cohen Priva at LabPhon
Associate Professor Uriel Cohen Priva presented at the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology.
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Chaya Nove Shares Insights on Yiddish Variation in Vienna
This summer, Postdoctoral Research Associate Chaya Nove delivered two lectures in Vienna, Austria, on the theme of Yiddish language variation.
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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.