The MIT Linguistics Group has been engaged in the study
of language since the 1950's, and the first class of PhD students was admitted in 1961. Our research aims to discover the
rules and representations underlying the structure of
particular languages and what they reveal about the general
principles that determine the form and development of language
in the individual and the species. The program covers the
traditional subfields of linguistics (phonetics, phonology,
morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics) as well
as interfaces with philosophy and logic, speech science and
technology, computer science and artificial intelligence, and
study of the brain and cognition.
News from WHAMIT! — our weekly
newsletter:
Recent and Upcoming Conferences:
- SNEWS 2013, the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics, November 16, 2013
- NECPhon, the Northeast Computational Phonology workshop, October 26, 2013
- Japanese/Korean Linguistics 23, October 11-13, 2013
- Conference on Metrical Structure: Text-Setting and Stress (m@90) to honor Morris Halle's 90th birthday, September 20-21, 2013: videos of the talks
- Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL), March 2012
- 50 Years of Linguistics at MIT: a scientific reunion, December 9-11, 2011: list of talks,
videos,
photo gallery
- Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL), May 2011
- MIT Workshop on Comparatives, November 2010
- Formal Approaches to Mayan Linguistics (FAMLi), April 2010
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