Linguistics at BU enables students to study human language from various perspectives and consider the relationships between linguistics and other disciplines. Our academic programs offer training in linguistic theory and analysis and include a wide range of courses examining the biological, social, cultural, historical, and cognitive bases of language.
BU Ling's very own Professor Sophie Hao was awarded a Moorman-Simon Career Development Professorship! The Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professorship recognizes faculty who are conducting truly interdisciplinary work and either hold or have the potential to hold appointments in multiple schools and colleges at BU. Sophie Hao, assistant professor of linguistics and computer science in […]
Michael Everdell at Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas 2025 Title: A reanalysis of the pɨx particle: Mirative readings from an exclusive base Our lecturer Michael Everdell represented BU at el Taller de los Amigos de las Lenguas Yutoaztecas (Workshop of friends of Yutoaztecan languages) this October. At the conference, he shared his […]
Professor Neil Myler @ University of São Paolo Title of talk: Towards a syntacticist account of heteroclisis in Spanish verb conjugation. Professor Myler will be representing BU in a talk on October 24 in the "Syntactic Pathways to Morphology" online lecture series! This series is held by São Paolo's Faculty of Philosophy, Languages, and Human […]
This week, Professor Elizabeth Coppock gave a talk at Sinn und Bedeutung entitled "Unifying arithmetic and mereological division". The conference takes place in-person at Goethe University in Frankfurt from September 23-27, 2025. Check out the conference program: https://vicom.info/sub30-program-2/
PhD student Yulu Qin was accepted as first author on a paper submitted to NeurIPS. The title is "Vision-and-Language Training Helps Deploy Taxonomic Knowledge but Does Not Fundamentally Alter It". You can learn more about NeurIPS here: https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2025. Congrats Yulu!
Congratulations to our PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg for passing his dissertation prospectus defense! His dissertation will be on prosody in Amharic. This summer, he was able to travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to conduct experiments and gather the necessary data for his dissertation.
Anthony is a specialist in psycholinguistics and child language acquisition. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2023, working with Jesse Snedeker. His research involves the use of methods such as neuroimaging, eye-tracking, and computational modeling to better understand how language develops, functions, and adapts in complex, real-world environments. He is especially interested in […]
The linguistics department is thrilled to welcome Sophie Hao to the faculty as Assistant Professor. A specialist in computational linguistics, Professor Hao does research on issues related to deep neural network models including interpretability, explainability, and bias. You can learn more about her research interests on her website at notaphonologist.com. Sophie Hao has a remarkable […]