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Opportunities for Giving to CU Linguistics
 Experimental
and computational linguistics are changing
the way that language data are collected
and therefore yielding new insights into
how we use and represent linguistic knowledge.
The goal of computational linguistics is
to get computers to perform useful tasks
involving human language, like machine
translation of documents or web pages,
automatic question answering, or literacy
training. Building these types of
systems requires an in-depth understanding
of both linguistics and computer science,
and relies on empirical analysis of vast
amounts of data. Experimental linguistics
uses experimental tasks to find out what
the properties of human language are, how
these properties change in different circumstances,
and what kinds of things people know (both
consciously and unconsciously) about the
sounds and structures of language. We
can use these results to develop and test
linguistic theories and apply them to practical
tasks in speech and language technology. Experimental
work in CU Linguistics department focuses
on language sounds and language acquisition.
Donations to this area will enable us to
purchase new equipment for data storage,
recording and acoustic analysis and to
compensate experimental subjects.
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