Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Lillehaugen (left) helped create a Tactile Magnet-Board System for Daniel Gillen '16 to help the blind student participate in her "Phonetic and Phonology" class.
Bi-Co students may major or minor in the Tri-Co Linguistics department (Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore).
There are 7,000 languages in the world, and we're interested in studying all of them. Linguistics is the scientific study of language—we develop techniques to explore patterns that all human languages have in common and investigate the ways in which each is unique. Our explorations yield insights not only about languages, but also about the nature of the human mind.
When Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Danielle Lillehaugen learned that Daniel Gillen '16, who is blind, planned to take her class in Spring 2013, Lillehaugen immediately began thinking about ways to allow his full participation without altering her interactive style of teaching....