Department Highlights
Linguistics at Northwestern
Language is a complex, species-specific system made up of several components (sound, sentence structure, and meaning). The study of linguistics gives us a unique window on the structure of the human mind and the mind's activity.
Highlights
On January 23, 2025, Northwestern University will once again be a site for the open round of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad. NACLO is an event for pre-university students to put their problem-solving skills to the test. Requiring no previous knowledge of linguistics, languages, or computing, NACLO’s logic puzzles can be solved by analytical reasoning alone. Students must register by January 20.
Events
Jan
21
2025
Dr. Laura Dabbish: CogSci Speaker Series
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Title and abstract to be announced.
Jan
23
2025
North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Evanston
Northwestern University will once again be a site for the open round of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad. NACLO is...
Jan
31
2025
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Mara Breen (Mount Holyoke College ...
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Poetry promotes processing: The role of hierarchical metric structure in speaking, listening, and reading. In her talk, Dr. Breen will...