Linguistics Courses at Boston University

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A list of Linguistics courses at Boston University.

• CAS LX 110 - Say What’ Accents, Dialects, and Society
  • Neil Myler
• CAS LX 120 - Language and Music
  • Daniel Erker
• CAS LX 205 - Origins of Writing
• CAS LX 208 - The Language of Our Ancestors: Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics
• CAS LX 235 - Language in the Contemporary World: Language, Society, and the Law
• CAS LX 250 - Introduction to Linguistics
  • Kate Lindsey
  • Charles Chang
  • Kate Watson
  • Amy Hutchinson
  • Jonathan Barnes
• CAS LX 301 - Phonetics & Phonology: Introduction to Sound Systems
  • Kate Watson
  • Amy Hutchinson
  • Kate Lindsey
• CAS LX 302 - Phonetics & Phonology: Introduction to Sound Systems Discussion
  • Kate Watson
  • Amy Hutchinson
  • Kate Lindsey
• CAS LX 311 - Morphology: Introduction to the Structures and Shapes of Words
  • Neil Myler
• CAS LX 317 - “Having” and “Being” across Languages
• CAS LX 321 - Syntax: Introduction to Sentential Structure
  • Paul Hagstrom
  • Myriam Dali
• CAS LX 322 - Syntax: Introduction to Sentential Structure Discussion
  • Paul Hagstrom
  • Myriam Dali
• CAS LX 327 - Focus
• CAS LX 328 - Questions
• CAS LX 331 - Semantics & Pragmatics: Introduction to Linguistic Meaning
  • Elizabeth Coppock
• CAS LX 332 - Semantics & Pragmatics: Introduction to Linguistic Meaning Discussion
  • Elizabeth Coppock
• CAS LX 341 - Sociolinguistics
  • Fallou Ngom
• CAS LX 342 - Language, Race, and Gender
  • Daniel Erker
• CAS LX 345 - Languages in Contact: The High Stakes of Grammatical Border-Crossing
  • Daniel Erker
• CAS LX 346 - Language Variation and Change
  • Daniel Erker
• CAS LX 349 - Bilingualism
  • Charles Chang
• CAS LX 350 - Crosslinguistic Approaches to Language Acquisition
• CAS LX 355 - Second Language Acquisition
  • Charles Chang
• CAS LX 359 - Interrupted Acquisition and Language Attrition
  • Charles Chang
• CAS LX 360 - Historical and Comparative Linguistics
  • Michael Everdell
• CAS LX 365 - Variation in Dialects of English
  • Neil Myler
• CAS LX 367 - Indigenous Languages of Latin America
  • Neil Myler
• CAS LX 368 - Religion and Film
• CAS LX 368 - Structure of African Languages
• CAS LX 370 - Romance Linguistics
• CAS LX 372 - French Phonetics
• CAS LX 373 - The Structure of French: Phonology
  • Carol Neidle
• CAS LX 374 - The Structure of French: Syntax
• CAS LX 375 - The History of the French Language
• CAS LX 376 - Topics in French Linguistics
• CAS LX 381 - Spanish in the United States
• CAS LX 383 - The Sounds of Spanish
  • Daniel Erker
• CAS LX 384 - The Structure of Spanish
  • Daniel Erker
• CAS LX 386 - Topics in Spanish Linguistics
• CAS LX 390 - Topics in Linguistics
  • Metrics and Evaluation in Natural Language Processing (Spring 2023, Spring 2024)
    • Much recent progress has been made in Natural Language Processing, sometimes accompanied by descriptions like “human-level performance.” This course serves as an introduction to how “progress” is measured and evaluated, and invites broader discussions about claims of human parity.
    • Najoung Kim
  • Child Language Acquisition (Fall 2025)
    • This course explores current and classic theories of language acquisition and assesses the empirical evidence underlying them. Students will learn through lecture, hands-on research, and lab-based demonstrations. Topics include linguistic nativism/empiricism, speech/sign perception, word recognition, and other sentence processing phenomena.
  • Cognitive Science & Language (B1) (Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
    • This course serves as an introduction to studying language as a part of broader cognitive science, exploring questions about the nature of linguistic representations, how they are processed and acquired, and how they interact with other cognitive domains.
    • Najoung Kim
  • Contemporary Research in Neural Network Models of Language (Fall 2025)
    • This seminar will discuss contemporary research in computational linguistics and cognitive science, focusing on neural network models. We aim to survey new research directions enabled by recent technological advances, contra things possible e.g., in the second wave of connectionism.
    • Najoung Kim
• CAS LX 391 - Linguistic Field Methods
  • Michael Everdell
  • Amy Hutchinson
  • Kate Lindsey
• CAS LX 394 - Introduction to Programming for Computational Linguistics
  • Najoung Kim
  • Paul Hagstrom
• CAS LX 401 - Senior Independent Work
  • Jonathan Barnes
  • Paul Hagstrom
  • Elizabeth Coppock
  • Charles Chang
  • Kate Watson
  • Daniel Erker
  • Najoung Kim
  • Neil Myler
  • Mary O’Connor
  • Kate Lindsey
  • Carol Neidle
  • Alexander Nikolaev
• CAS LX 402 - Senior Independent Work
  • Najoung Kim
  • Kate Watson
• CAS LX 403 - Phonological Analysis
  • Jonathan Barnes
  • Amy Hutchinson
  • Kate Lindsey
• CAS LX 405 - Prosody
  • Jonathan Barnes
• CAS LX 409 - Intermediate Phonetics
• CAS LX 422 - Intermediate Syntax: Modeling Syntactic Knowledge
  • Paul Hagstrom
  • Neil Myler
• CAS LX 423 - Advanced Syntax: Issues in Modern Syntactic Theory
  • Paul Hagstrom
• CAS LX 432 - Intermediate Semantics: The Grammatical Construction of Meaning
  • Elizabeth Coppock
  • Myriam Dali
• CAS LX 433 - Experimental Pragmatics
  • Elizabeth Coppock
• CAS LX 453 - Acquisition of Phonology
  • Charles Chang
• CAS LX 454 - Acquisition of Syntax
  • Paul Hagstrom
• CAS LX 490 - Intermediate Topics in Linguistics
• CAS LX 491 - Directed Study: Linguistics
  • Mary O’Connor
  • Najoung Kim
  • Jonathan Barnes
  • Kate Watson
  • Paul Hagstrom
  • Daniel Erker
  • Charles Chang
  • Elizabeth Coppock
  • Neil Myler
  • Alexander Nikolaev
  • Carol Neidle
  • Kate Lindsey
• CAS LX 492 - Directed Study: Linguistics
  • Jonathan Barnes
  • Neil Myler
  • Mary O’Connor
  • Najoung Kim
  • Daniel Erker
  • Elizabeth Coppock
  • Kate Watson
  • Paul Hagstrom
• CAS LX 496 - Computational Linguistics
  • Najoung Kim
  • Paul Hagstrom
• CAS LX 795 - Quantitative Methods in Linguistics
  • Daniel Erker
• CAS LX 801 - Seminar in Linguistic Research