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Linguistics

Bachelor of Arts

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The B.A. major in linguistics broadens students’ foreign language experience with the study of language structure and introduces students to a variety of aspects of linguistic investigation, including language use, meaning, and stylistics; language change and variation; and training in linguistic analysis of phonetic, phonological, morphological, and syntactic structure. Linguistics studies language in all its forms and uses.

Offered at IU Bloomington by College of Arts and Sciences

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