• Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, including similarities and differences among languages of the world; sound, word, and sentence structure; how language conveys meaning; how languages change over time; how languages are learned; the relationship between language and cognition; and the intersection of language, culture, and society.
  • These concerns have relevance to many other fields. The B.A. in linguistics provides a useful background, not only for advanced work in linguistics itself, but also for graduate study in anthropology, law, sociology, language disorders, cognitive science, speech technology, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, education, and applied linguistics.