Professor Jacques Lamarche lectures on Syntax. (above and below)
phonetics lab
An acoustic phonetics lab in action.
 

What is your future in linguistics?

As an undergraduate student in the interfaculty program in linguistics you have the opportunity to centre your studies in a field that "broadly speaking, is the scientific study of all aspects of human language. It is an exciting, growing field, with significant connections to other disciplines, such as philosophy, cognitive psychology, reading, and anthropology."

The addition of Linguistics to any field of study enhances your academic program with critical and analytical skills while contributing to your better understanding of human language (French, English and others). Students in many different fields also find that linguistics makes an interesting and engaging elective or optional course.

Linguistics @ UWO

The audio-visual lab (Rm 188)
of the Language Learning Centre
in University College

Your studies will be enriched with the support of our state of the art language laboratories in the Language Learning Centre, RM 188 of University College, the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Lab (TALL), RM 135 of University College and a diverse faculty whose fields of expertise include:

  • Acoustic Phonetics
  • Syntax
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Bilingualism
  • Dialectology
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Phonology
  • Prosody
  • Sociolinguistics
  • French Linguistics
  • Language Acquisition
  • Pedagogy
  • Linguistic Anthropology
  • Minority Languages
  • Morphology
  • Romance Linguistics
  • Semantics
  • Socio-cultural Theory

A very important aspect of linguistics is the study of language. The University of Western Ontario offers courses on the study of 16 different languages, many at the introductory level.

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Careers in linguistics: some of the possibilities for your future in Linguistics.

Language and Linguistics graduates are sought after in today's globalized job market not only for their bi/multi-lingual skills but for their acutely developed communication skills and critical thought/analysis capabilities.

Dozens of technology start-ups are commercializing linguistics research, and competing to hire the relatively small pool of specialists on the topic.

Suddenly, linguists have their pick of jobs as lexicographers, "knowledge engineers" and "vocabulary-resource managers".

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Future Career Goals may include

In the field of Artificial Intelligence:

  • Speech recognition programming
  • Language recognition programming
  • Lexicography/semantic variation
  • Multilingual programming
  • Natural Language Research

In the field of publishing and Advertising:

  • Copywriter/Technical writing
  • Multilingual Lexical/Semantic Research
  • Translations

In the field of health:

  • Socio/Psycho-linguistic Research
  • Speech pathology
  • Speech Analysis/Forensic Linguistics

In the field of Academia:

  • Research and Teaching specializing in one or more of the many inter-disciplinary fields of Linguistics

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