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

Convocation 2024

6 juin 2024

Congratulations to the undergraduate Linguistics students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities who received scholarships and awards this year.

Elizabeth Winiker
* The University of Western Ontario Gold Medal for Honours Major in Linguistics

Demitra Marsillo
* The University of Western Ontario Gold Medal for Honours Specialization in Linguistics

 

 

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.