Master Sciences Du Langage — Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics and Phonetics

Tuition fees for Master Sciences Du Langage — Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics and Phonetics are 292 USD per year.

The Sciences du Langage master's degree covers the scientific study of language in its many dimensions, and the Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics and Phonetics specialization concentrates on the formal and empirical study of sound systems and grammatical structure. Coursework in this area typically includes phonetics and phonology, syntactic and semantic theory, and the experimental methods used to test hypotheses about how language is produced, perceived, and processed by speakers. Students learn to design and run experiments involving acoustic measurement, perception tasks, and psycholinguistic testing, alongside more theoretical study of grammatical structure and linguistic universals. The specialization sits at the boundary between descriptive linguistics, which documents how languages are structured, and experimental approaches, which test predictions about language processing using empirical data. Students who complete this kind of program are generally prepared for further doctoral research in linguistics or phonetics, work in speech and language research settings, or roles that require rigorous analysis of spoken and written language, including in language technology and language documentation. The program is hosted at Université Paris Cité in Paris, France, delivered in French, and leads to a master's degree completed over two years, with a start date inferred as September. Yearly tuition is 250 EUR. Applicants should have prior training in linguistics, since the specialization builds directly on foundational knowledge of phonetics, phonology, and grammatical theory, and combines it with the experimental skills needed to test linguistic hypotheses rather than relying on descriptive or purely applied approaches to language.