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BU's Department of Linguistics enables students to study human language from a variety of perspectives and to consider the relationships between linguistics and other disciplines. We offer the undergraduate Linguistics major, minor, and joint majors combining Linguistics with a related field (e.g., African Languages, Computer Science, Philosophy, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences); a dual degre
06/09/2026
BU Linguistics @ 13th Speech Prosody
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 from our department won one of eight IPA Student Awards!
BU MA alum Yining Qu, now a PhD student at UCSB, presented a poster, “Discourse Context in the Perception of Mandarin Tone-Intonation Ambiguity”, which was an outgrowth of a final paper at BU in Fall 2023.
Other attendees included our recent PhD graduate Liza Sulkin who presented a successful talk, as well as BU Linguistics professor Jonathan Barnes!
We are so proud of all of our students and faculty!
06/08/2026
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!
05/12/2026
Thank you to everyone who helped make the Boston Morphology Workshop (BMW) a success! The BU Linguistics department was honored to host.
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