Linguistics at BU enables students to study human language from various perspectives and consider the relationships between linguistics and other disciplines. Our academic programs offer training in linguistic theory and analysis and include a wide range of courses examining the biological, social, cultural, historical, and cognitive bases of language.
We are proud to announce the many students and professors in our department who will be participating in the 2026 LSA annual meeting! It takes place this year on January 8-11, 2026 in New Orleans. For the full schedule with times, you can filter through the official program by entering "Boston University".
Congratulations to our PhD candidate Rebecca Wheeler who successfully defended her qualifying paper titled "Effect of Non-native Articulation Rate on English Foreigner-directed Speech Production"!
Dear BU linguistics community, Mark your calendars for a special talk on January 15! LiSLab and tinlab looking forward to welcoming the legendary Janet B. Pierrehumbert (Oxford) for a talk on that day. Although she is world-renowned for her work on phonology, she will be presenting recent work on large language models and their relation […]
Professor Elizabeth Coppock at University of Buenos Aires This week, Prof. Coppock represented BU at the University of Buenos Aires with her talk "Unifying Dependent and Independent Numeral Reduplication in Newar". This was part of the "Workshop on Form and Meaning".
Congrats to Professor Lindsey who recently published in Open Text Collections at Language Science Press! Available for download here: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/541 The Ende Way: Short stories and songs from Limol prepared with the Ende Language Committee is a collection of Ende stories and songs that contains 20 texts from the Ende Language Corpus, a repository of […]
BU Ling's very own Professor Sophie Hao was awarded a Moorman-Simon Career Development Professorship! The Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professorship recognizes faculty who are conducting truly interdisciplinary work and either hold or have the potential to hold appointments in multiple schools and colleges at BU. Sophie Hao, assistant professor of linguistics and computer science in […]
Michael Everdell at Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas 2025 Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU at el Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas (Workshop of friends of Yutoaztecan languages) this October. At the conference, he shared his […]
Professor Neil Myler @ University of São Paolo Title of talk: Towards a syntacticist account of heteroclisis in Spanish verb conjugation. Professor Myler will be representing BU in a talk on October 24 in the "Syntactic Pathways to Morphology" online lecture series! This series is held by São Paolo's Faculty of Philosophy, Languages, and Human […]