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.
The University at Buffalo will host the 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57) on May 21–23, 2026! We are proud to have several department members and alumni presenting. - Jackson Kellogg: Considering evidence for word stress via intonational peak alignment in Amharic- Rebecca Dufie Bonney: Talking to Children in their L1 Matters: Lasting […]
In 2026, our department has had four PhD candidates pass their dissertation defenses!Andre Batchelder-Schwab: Topics in African Whistled LanguagesLiza Sulkin: Acoustic correlates of gender presentation and sexualityJupitara Ray: Phonetic plasticity in Indian English bilinguals: How L2 accommodation alters L1 production and perceptionJackson Kellogg: Prosodic prominence and phrasal intonation in AmharicCongrats to Doctors Batchelder-Schwab, Sulkin, Ray, […]
Thank you to everyone who helped make the Boston Morphology Workshop (BMW) a success! The BU Linguistics department was honored to host.
Last month, BU Professor Kate Lindsey presented at the CUNY Graduate Center with a colloquium called "Two Lies and a Truth: Uncovering the Facts about Chuvash Stress". Congrats!
Last month, Professor Coppock was invited to the Princeton - Rutgers Semantics workshop to provide comments on Hans Kamp's paper! https://philosophy.princeton.edu/events/princeton-rutgers-semantics-workshop-0
This Friday and Saturday, May 1-2 2026, BU Linguistics will be hosting the Boston Morphology Workshop (the fourth in the series of Exo-Words workshops, which have previously been hosted at Penn State, Princeton, and UQAM). The schedule and other information can be found on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/bostonmorphologyworkshop/ The talks will be taking place in Room […]
We are proud to announce that four of our students won Boston University Center for the Humanities awards!! Undergraduate Student Awards recognize outstanding students majoring in a humanities or humanities-adjacent discipline: The Robert E. Yellin Award was awarded to both Noah Darby and Maclain Rockett in our department! https://www.bu.edu/humanities/opportunities/undergrads/student-awards/past-award-winners/ Graduate Student Awards recognize outstanding work […]
One of our undergraduate students, a Junior majoring in Linguistics and Computer Science, was accepted to the Emory Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (EULC7)! https://linguistics.emory.edu/news/eulc.html The conference took place virtually in April and Sungjun's talk was entitled "Hangeul as a Computational Medium". Congrats!