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    The New York University Linguistics Department has established itself as a top linguistics program in the United States and the world

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Department of Linguistics

About the Department

The New York University Linguistics Department has established itself as a top linguistics program in the United States and the world, covering an extensive range of subfields including: phonetics/phonology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, morphology, neurolinguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics.

The Linguistics Department has 15 core faculty members, 1 Global Distinguished professor, and several visiting professors and scholars each year, with 8 laboratories and research groups. Click below for more information about our labs and research groups.

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