A program that focuses on language, language development, and relationships among languages and language groups from a humanistic and/or scientific perspective. Includes instruction in subjects such as psycholinguistics, behavioral linguistics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, mathematical and computational linguistics, grammatical theory and theoretical linguistics, philosophical linguistics, philology and historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, phonetics, phonemics, dialectology, semantics, functional grammar and linguistics, language typology, lexicography, morphology and syntax, orthography, stylistics, structuralism, rhetoric, and applications to artificial intelligence.
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Top 7
Massachusetts
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Linguistics among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | Harvard University
Cambridge, MA | 11
(0.6%) |  |  | |
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| | Brandeis University
Waltham, MA | 4
(0.5%) |  |  | |
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| | Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA | 10
(0.4%) | | | |
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| | Boston University
Boston, MA | 17
(0.4%) |  | | |
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| | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA | 4
(0.3%) | | | |
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| | University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA | 12
(0.3%) | |  | |
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| | Northeastern University
Boston, MA | 7
(0.2%) | | | |
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2007-2008 graduating class.