31 Master's degrees in Linguistics in Netherlands

How do children learn their mother tongue? How do non-native speakers learn a second language and what are the best teaching methods? What is involved in teaching a computer a language? At the  Linguistics - Language and AI MA programme offered at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, you will explore these questions and more. 

Are you looking for excellent expertise in linguistics, coupled with a challenging specialisation in newly developing research fields that are fundamentally relevant to today’s society? The Humanities Research - Linguistics programme from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam trains you as a professional linguistic researcher, specialised in either Human Language Technology or Forensic Linguistics.

The research master’s programme in Linguistics combines leading expertise with a flexible programme format.

How is language stored in the brain? How do we acquire a foreign language? How can we explain patterns of language use in terms of underlying structures, and also the role of language in society? The Language and Cognition programme offers training in linguistics which reflects the areas of expertise among linguists at the University of Groningen.

Explore language from a (socio)linguistic and pragmatic perspective while gaining proficiency in one of seven European languages. In the Language and Society (Linguistics) programme of the University of Amsterdam, you will develop the knowledge and skills to analyse your target language within its unique social context.

Within the Linguistics specialisation, you can choose one of the suggested thematic routes. Depending on your chosen theme, the programme prepares you for a career in various fields, such as speech technology, artificial intelligence, education, language documentation and language policy.

The Linguistics - Language and AI course at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam prepares you as a scholar and as an engineer how to build and use this technology in professional context such as government, health, legal, education domains and many others.

The one-year General Linguistics programme of the University of Amsterdam has a typological focus: you will explore how the systems of the languages of the world can vary and to what extent this variation is constrained.

The specialisation in Modern Languages allows you to further develop your knowledge and skills in language and linguistics. The courses offer a broad range of topics, including the structure of the language, how languages evolve over time and how they can vary from place to place, how people acquire them and how people use them in context.

How is language constructed and which aspects can be distinguished and studied? How are these aspects realized in different language families and specific languages? We offer a master degree in Theoretical and Empirical Linguistics at University of Groningen. 

The program covers a range of different activities, such as analysing disputed texts, identifying fraudulent communication, being able to write a scoping review in an area of your interest and analysing the language used in legal settings, such as emergency calls, crisis negotiations, police interviews and courts.