Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna and Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže announced the winner of the Latvian and Estonian Language Promotion Award in Cēsis, Latvia on July 5th.
Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics
Research in the Institute covers a broad range of linguistic topics, focusing on Estonian and other Finno-Ugric languages but also including other languages. We teach Estonian and several other Finno-Ugric languages. The quality of our linguistic research and teaching is evident from our placement in the top quarter of the best 1000 universities in the world in the field of linguistics (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021). Our researchers investigate aspects of morphosyntax, semantics and phonetics as well as sociolinguistics, language acquisition, and computational linguistics.
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Our institute has 4 departments, 2 laboratories and 3 centers, including 1 interdisciplinary consortium. The institute employs 101 people, including 6 professors, 13 associate professors, 14 lecturers, 21 researchers, 3 junior lecturer, 28 junior researchers and 2 teachers. The institute has 6 programs, including 1 Bachelor's program, 4 Master's programs and 1 Doctoral degree program. There are 225 students, including 90 in Bachelor's studies, 97 in Master's studies and 38 in Doctoral studies. There are 16% or 37 foreign students in the institute.
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Gretchen McCulloch, the internet’s favourite linguist, is visiting Tartu at the end of August as part of the MEDAL project.
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The 5th International Symposium on Applied Phonetics will be hosted by the University of Tartu on 30 September ‒ 2 October 2024.
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Przemysław Podleśny, a graduate of the international curriculum Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages, gave a speech in Estonian at the master's graduation ceremony.
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We welcome first-year students to our curriculum information hours in August and September.
