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
PhD Colloquium Talk- Shawn Foster
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, No Location
Linguistics PhD candidate Shawn Foster will present their Colloquium Talk to the Department and other interested parties. The title of ...
Dr. Tina Tallon: CogSci Speaker Series
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Title : Machine Learning, Music, and Medicine Abstract: Recent developments in machine learning allow for high-resolution and data-driv...
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Jesse Harris (UCLA)
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, Evanston
Dr. Harris is an associate professor at UCLA in the Department of Linguistics, and they advises projects in the UCLA Language Processin...
News
Maya Kraidy (WCAS ’26 Cognitive Science and Linguistics) wins the prestigious Circumnavigator Award
“We are thrilled that Maya has the opportunity to pursue her interesting project,” says Professor Matt Goldrick. “Based on her outstanding work in linguistics courses and in my research group, I have no doubt her trip around the world will yield insights into how language shapes and reflects our social world.”