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The Linguistics and Cognitive Science Department offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of language and mind, with a focus on the central role of language in understanding the nature of cognition. The undergraduate major features core courses in linguistics and cognitive science followed by a choice of two tracks: one emphasizing linguistics and the other cognitive science.

The curriculum is intercollegiate, offering courses taught at Pitzer and Scripps as well as Pomona, and multi-disciplinary, offering courses in philosophy, music, computer science, psychology and neuroscience.

2011 Senior Thesis Awards (PDF files will eventually be accessable here)

Glass Linguistics Prize for best Linguistics thesis:
Teresa Johnson, Les études à l'étranger et le développement d'une L2: Une analyse de prononciation employant la théorie de l'exemplaire

Glass Linguistics Prize for best Linguistics Thesis:
Sam Cunningham, Focus Sensitivity, Few, and Only: Why we need a new theory for NPIs

Karen Kossuth Linguistics Prize for most innovative Linguistics thesis:
Adelina Solis, The Contemporary Esperanto Speech Community


See past awards