Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. The focus of research and teaching in the linguistics program at Western is on theoretical and applied linguistics, bringing together an inter-faculty group of researchers for a truly interdisciplinary approach to the discipline. 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.
News and Events
Intent to Register 2023
Add a Linguistics module to your degree! Click here for more details
Spring Open House
Come explore campus on March 25. Registration is now open.
Undergraduate Awards
November 2022
Congratulations to the undergraduate students in Lingustics who received scholarships awared by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities!
- Mariela Magana
- Celine Tsang
Highlights
TALL Laboratory

- The TALL laboratory provides the electronic and technical infrastructure essential to the pursuit of leading edge linguistics research.
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What is Linguistics?
Where to begin?
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Social Science
Videos
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