Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics

University at Buffalo - SUNY

Speaking. Signing. Understanding. It's all part of linguistics, a program designed for people who love words and languages -and want to use science to study how we communicate with each other. For example, are you curious why "the small brown dog" sounds right, but "the brown small dog" sounds wrong? Find out at UB, where you can also choose to specialize in some of the world’s most widely spoken languages, like Chinese, Japanese and Korean.What will I learn?How do children actually learn how to speak? How do people produce sounds? How are concepts like race and gender reflected in language? How do computers process human language? From phonetics and phonology to semantics and syntax, these are just a few of the topics you can explore as a linguistics major. Here, you'll study the structure, function and meaning of language-including the option to concentrate on a specific language and take advanced courses in that subject area.

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