Department of Linguistics
Student Spotlight
Sid Bhushan: Undergraduate Spotlight
My favorite thing about linguistics is how versatile of a field it is. Language is everywhere and it's possible to study so many different aspects of it.
Faculty Spotlight
Faculty Spotlight: Jonathan Dunn
For me, the advantage of computational methods is precision and scale: First, we can describe language with a level of detail that no human could keep in their memory. Second, we can observe this precision at a scale that allows us to see how language functions as a complex system.
My particular focus is the interaction between how language emerges within individuals and how it varies across populations. I’m working on a joint model of these two problems that can be tested at scale in realistic computational simulations.