Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics

University of Texas - Arlington

The BA in linguistics provides training in the primary areas of the field related to speech sounds, sentence structure, meaning, and psycholingusitics. Students can also simultaneously earn a bachelor's in linguistics and an undergraduate certificate in TESOL, or a concentration in pre-speech pathology or computational linguistics. Students can also get hands-on experience in various areas of linguistics through internships.The Department of Linguistics & TESOL seeks to deepen our understanding of language by examining how it is represented, used, and processed. Our department works toward this goal through research and teaching in theoretical linguistics, focusing on phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics, as well as the interfaces among these domains of inquiry. In order to explore questions in these areas, we use multiple methods-including field methods, corpus-based methods, and experimental research methods-to collect and analyze data from a wide range of the world's languages and from both native and non-native speakers of these languages. This approach to the scientific study of language is the primary focus of our PhD in linguistics, MA in linguistics, and BA in linguistics.

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