The Linguistics faculty are able to offer research for the honors thesis and independent study in a wide range of areas. Particular strengths include cognitive neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, language and politics, diachronic linguistics, language and law, bi- and multilingualism, language development, region-specific expertise, and linguistic theory. The Linguistics faculty are willing to consider supervision in any aspect of language study. Lab-based research in neuroimaging is also available.