Linguistics

About this course

Linguistics is the scientific study of language in all its dimensions. It examines how languages are structured at the level of sounds, words, sentences, and meaning, how they are acquired by children, how they vary across communities and change over time, and how they function in social and cognitive life. It is a discipline that treats language as a natural phenomenon worthy of systematic investigation, and it connects to computer science, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and neuroscience in ways that make it one of the most interdisciplinary fields in the humanities and sciences. At the University of Edinburgh, linguistics is taught in one of the world's leading centres for the subject. Edinburgh has exceptional research strengths across the full range of the discipline, including phonetics and phonology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, computational ling

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