Master in Linguistics – Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics

Linguistics aims to identify the common properties of languages by studying their formal features, their history, their diversity, the way they are learned, and the pathologies that can affect them. The Master’s degree in Language Sciences – Campus Grands Moulins offers a theoretical and experimental training program in Linguistics that is especially oriented towards research, theorization and experimental analysis of linguistic phenomena. In addition to providing comprehensive training in the different fields of linguistics, this program offers a thorough introduction to the different experimental methods used to describe linguistic phenomena and a critical discussion of the different linguistic theories adopted in modern linguistics to explain such phenomena.
Within the Master’s degree in Language Sciences, the specialty in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics aims to train researchers in linguistics and language professionals. The Master’s prepares students for diverse professions, mostly in the field of research, linguistic policy making and teaching. The Master’s degree provides access to a variety of professional fields: research in linguistics, teaching, speech therapy, communication-related professions, teaching French as a foreign language, language policy making (regional languages, language contact, European integration, etc.), software engineering, linguistic engineering, etc.
Two research papers will be written: a short one in the first year and a longer one with a public defense at the end of the second year. A research internship is mandatory in the first year.