LING at Yale University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate LING coursework.

• LING 2320Phonology Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• LING 6320Phonology Iopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate LING work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 8 LING and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 354 more LING courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in LING. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at LING 1650

  1. HEBR 1400Intermediate Modern Hebrew II
  2. LING 1650Languages in Dialogue: Hebrew and Arabic

• 2 courses deep, ending at LING 3270

  1. ARBC 1400Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic II
  2. LING 3270History of the Arabic Language

• 2 courses deep, ending at LING 3360

  1. LING 2320Phonology I
  2. LING 3360Articulatory Phonology

• 2 courses deep, ending at LING 6120

  1. LING 6320Phonology I
  2. LING 6120Historical I

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on LING sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• A. Aravind
• A. Uskokov
• C. Bowern
• G. Brody
• J. Darnell
• J. Shaw
• M. Pinango
• N. Weber
• P. Grund
• R. Frank
• R. Zanuttini
• S. Charlow
• T. McCoy
• V. Dayal

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under LING yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

LING does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Yale campus feed.