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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Kpogo at ACAL and ICPC
This past month, Felix Kpogo attended the Association of Contemporary African Linguistics' (ACAL) 57th Annual Meeting at The University at Buffalo, NY as well as at the International Child Phonology Conference's (ICPC) 47th Meeting at The University of Madison, Wisconsin.
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Brown students and faculty at SULA/TripleA 2026
Faculty member Scott AnderBois together with co-authors -- including undergrad alum Nathaniel Scott '24 and current undergrad Claire Robertson '27 -- presented two papers at Semantics of Underrepresented Languages of the Americas (SULA) in Vancouver.
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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.