Penn State’s BA in Linguistics explores the fundamental nature of human language, including its structure (phonology, morphology, syntax), meaning (semantics, pragmatics), and variation across time and communities. Students gain skills in linguistic analysis, computational modeling, and sociolinguistic research. The program emphasizes interdisciplinary applications in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, anthropology, and language education, preparing students for careers in research, translation, tech, or academia.
Building a database of endangered language phonologies
Comparing dialect variation in rural and urban communities
Analyzing syntax structures in child language acquisition
Creating a morphological parser for an agglutinative language
Studying gendered language in political speeches
Building a sentiment analysis tool for multilingual social media data
Exploring prosody in poetry using speech analysis software
Tracing etymological changes in loanwords across time
Documenting intonation patterns in tonal languages
Designing a mini grammar for a constructed language (conlang)
Studying sociolinguistic identity in bilingual communities
Developing tools for ASL gloss annotation
Modeling semantic shifts in historical texts
Conducting a field study on code-switching behaviors
Building a chatbot that adapts to regional language variants
Comparing syntactic ambiguity in legal vs. journalistic writing
Creating infographics for cross-linguistic typology data
Studying language ideology and policy in multilingual nations
Designing an app for real-time dialect recognition
Analyzing linguistic relativity in spatial orientation terms
Explore the science and diversity of human languages while preparing for careers in research, AI, or communication.
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