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The Carleton Linguistics Department

Linguistics is the study of the remarkable human capacity to learn and use natural languages. Prominent questions include the nature of the systems of mental representation (both abstractly and neurologically characterized), how these representations arise, how they change, how they are written, and how languages are put to use in social and literary contexts.

Carleton in Kyoto 2012

Japanese Linguistics and Culture in Kyoto, Japan Off-campus Study 2012

 

ismil 2010 

Carleton Linguistics represents at the 14th International Symposium for Malay/Indonesian Linguistics, at the University of Minnesota in May, 2010. Clockwise from center: Dan Ehrenberg (Math/CS, '11), Kellianne Bennett (Linguistics, '12), Jennifer Krafft (Japanese Linguistics, '10), Sara Cantor (Linguistics, '11), and Mikaela Van Sistine (Linguistics, '10).

View photos from the annual Linguistics picnic: 2007-2011.