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Institution

Lancaster University

Currency

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Program Level

BSc(Hons)

Program

Language Sciences

Summary

• Discover the fascinating science behind language – from how children acquire language skills to how machines comprehend and produce language
• Prepare yourself for a range of rewarding specialist careers – from forensic linguistics to speech and language therapy
• Work with experts in a department that is ranked 3rd in the world by QS 2024
• Choose from modules that explore linguistics in the contexts of psychology, computing, the law and big data
• Use our labs to conduct your own research in eye-tracking or electrical activity in the brain

Studying language from a scientific perspective will transform the way you think about the world. Language Science is a fast-moving and rapidly developing field that provides a gateway to careers in fields as diverse as computing, health, education and law enforcement.

Discover new perspectives

Language is found in almost every aspect of human life, and in this course, we study it through the lens of science. You’ll be learning about how language is constructed and how it’s used for communication and expression. As well as discovering how studying language from a scientific perspective intersects with other scientific fields, such as cognitive science, psychology, computer science and forensic science.

Drawing on research conducted within our department, you’ll explore topics such as:

• The structures and sounds of the world’s languages and what unites them
• The cognitive marvel of how children acquire their first language
• Computational linguistics and how machines comprehend and produce language

You may also choose to specialise your study in areas such as psycholinguistics (the study of how linguistic behaviour relates to psychological processes), forensic linguistics (the application of linguistic knowledge and methods to legal contexts) and corpus linguistics (the computer-based study of vast text databases).

Tuition Fees

24700.00

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CertificateName

Language Sciences BSc

Intake

September

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Year Length

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Program Length

3 years

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