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 first Graduate Research Forum (GRF) of fall 2026 is tomorrow! It will be held October 7th, from 5:00-6:30 p.m. in the Linguistics Department. GRF is our student-run series dedicated to presentations, workshops, practice talks, and other activities. Tomorrow, we are lucky to have not one, but two presenters! First, we have BU's own Alex Chotai, […]
Our department had a great time a few weeks ago at the 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57) in Buffalo!
Speech Prosody 2026 was hosted by the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and our department had quite the representation! Recent PhD graduate Jackson Kellogg was tied for best paper with our former BU undergrad Kendall Lowe, now a PhD student at Michigan. They won out of 174 candidate papers! If that's not enough, Chris Lee […]
BU linguistics alum Yuhao Dai, currently a PhD student at Georgetown, presented at SULA-TripleA on May 12-15 at the University of British Columbia. His poster was entitled "Two perfects in Lhasa Tibetan and the lack of cessation inferences of pa.ree". Here he is pictured with Lisa Matthewson!
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 Amharic We also had one PhD […]
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!