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
Events
NULSA Talk: Adam Aleksic presents "Are We Cooked?"
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Adam Aleksic is a linguist, influencer, and author of the NYT bestselling book Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future o...
COGSCI FACULTY FLASH TALKS : Cognitive Science Speaker Series
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Faculty Speakers: Monita Chatterjee , Communication Sciences and Disorders Manling Li, Computer Science Jiayi Lu, Department of Linguis...
Linguistics Colloquium Series - Dr. Elsi Kaiser, University of So...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Two much of a good thing? Two-pronoun sequences and prominence in English and Finnish. Transitive clauses with two personal pronouns in...
News
Congratulations to Isaiah DeLeon, the winner of 2025 Demoz Prize, which honors outstanding undergraduate achievement in linguistics.
Congratulations to Dr. Ann Bradlow.
We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Ann Bradlow who has been elected as the next President of the Acoustical Society of America.
Chun Liang Chan publishes the Winter 2025 Linguistics Research Technology Newsletter, which covers research updates, workshops, and a Grad Student profile.
Be sure to visit the Linguistics Research website for additional information on our lab spaces, experiments, and resources.