Linguistics is the study of human language. The Linguistics program at Western is interdisciplinary, bringing together faculty members from numerous departments to teach the formal, social, theoretical and applied aspects of language. Linguistics students learn how language works as a set of rule-based systems, as well as how people use language to give meaning to our lives. Learn More

Undergraduate

The inter-faculty Program in Linguistics allows Western students from any Faculty to study Linguistics either on its own or in combination with another subject.

Graduate

The M.A. Program can be summed up in terms of Linguistics at Western not as formal, nor social, nor applied, but as all of these: the humanistic and scientific study of language as an abstract system of symbols that is known and used.

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Highlights

WISSLR

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  • Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research

TALL Laboratory

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  • The TALL laboratory provides the electronic and technical infrastructure essential to the pursuit of leading edge linguistics research.