Department Highlights
Linguistics at Northwestern

Language is a complex, species-specific system made up of several components (sound, sentence structure, and meaning). The study of linguistics gives us a unique window on the structure of the human mind and the mind's activity.
Highlights
Events
Northwestern University Linguistics Student Association (NULSA) M...
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston
This is an opportunity to connect with current Linguistics majors/minors and to welcome prospective Linguistics students to our communi...
Linguistics Colloquium Series - Dr. Odete Scharenborg
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Please check back for details about the talk.
Linguistics Colloquium Series - Dr. Elsi Kaiser, University of So...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Please check back for details about the talk.
News
Congratulations to Isaiah DeLeon, the winner of 2025 Demoz Prize, which honors outstanding undergraduate achievement in linguistics.
Congratulations to Dr. Ann Bradlow.
We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Ann Bradlow who has been elected as the next President of the Acoustical Society of America.
Chun Liang Chan publishes the Winter 2025 Linguistics Research Technology Newsletter, which covers research updates, workshops, and a Grad Student profile.
Be sure to visit the Linguistics Research website for additional information on our lab spaces, experiments, and resources.