About the Program

Located in the English Department at George Mason University, we provide training in computational, documentary, experimental, and pedagogical techniques for investigating language. We offer a PhD in Linguistics, a Master of Arts in English: Linguistics, a TESOL Graduate Certificate, an undergraduate concentration in Linguistics in the English Major, and two undergraduate Minors:  A Minor in Linguistics, and a Minor in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).

Since the 1970s, we have grown with the field of linguistics. Our programs are built on a strong foundation of core areas in linguistics. That foundation informs the questions of how to document languages in ways useful to their communities, examine how language is acquired and processed in the mind, create fair and accessible language and speech technology, and teach English to speakers of other languages.

We are home to five different research labs, and we also host the Speech Accent Archive.