Taalwetenschappen (research)

This two-year Research Master's programme in Linguistics brings together students from all over the world who combine their unique talents and backgrounds with shared curiosity into language and the way it is embedded in human cognition. Language is a hugely important part of our daily lives. It is integral to how we communicate and how we learn, and it determines part of our identity. Because of all this, it is important that we study language. The research Master's programme in Linguistics offers students the necessary skills to approach language-related questions scientifically. This research focus distinguishes it from undergraduate programmes in linguistics.The key focus of the programme is the question: which cognitive faculties underlie human language, and how do they interact?
The programme offers a broad focus on:


theoretical linguistics (phonology, syntax, semantics)

psycholinguistics (language acquisition, language processing)

language use (discourse studies, bilingualism, phonetics, historical linguistics)