Department news

Marylanders at Penn's virtual CUNY

Seven presentations on language acquisition and processing, plus more from alumni.

January 28, 2021 Linguistics

Thomas and Naomi in PNAS

Challenging the received view on early phonetic learning.

August 12, 2020 Linguistics

NSF support for Tyler, Masha and Philip

New grants underwrite projects in semantics and psycholinguistics, syntax and typology, computational linguistics and political science.

August 12, 2020 Linguistics

Research on Central American languages

Read about new grants, presentations and classes by Rodrigo, Paulina and Polina.

August 11, 2020 Linguistics

New jobs for alums

This year has been good for our alumni, with several new appointments and promotions.

April 15, 2020 Linguistics

Laurel wins Glushko Prize

Laurel Perkins *19 is the first Terp to win the Glushko Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertations in cognitive science from the Cognitive Science Society.

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Jeff Lidz and Laurel Perkins chair symposium at Society for Research in Child Development

April 09, 2021 Linguistics

Infant syntax above the word level.

Sigwan and Omer at Arizona WCCFL

April 03, 2021 Linguistics

On the syntactic identity of roots, and the domain of special meanings.

Ellen speaking at 50th anniversary of MPI Psycholinguistics

April 03, 2021 Linguistics

On the neurobiology of semantics and its relation to syntax.

Jeff in Cognition on Principle C

April 02, 2021 Linguistics

Success in Principle C is predicted by vocabulary.

Dan Goodhue at Rutgers colloquium

March 25, 2021 Linguistics

He's giving a unified analysis of assertive and inquisitive rising declaratives?

Polina, Paulina, and Rodrigo in LSA Proceedings

March 22, 2021 Linguistics

On sibilant harmony in Santiago Tz'utujil and caseless NPs in Moksha.

Colin and Bill online with the Brazilian Linguistics Association

March 21, 2021 Linguistics

Lecture plus discussion led by a past advisee.

Second online K'iche' course

March 19, 2021 Linguistics

UMD Mayan Winter Language school offers an immersive course on K'iche'.

Sigwan and Polina at PLC45

March 08, 2021 Linguistics

On case and agreement, virtually in Philadelphia.

Yu'an and Tyler in Proceedings of SALT 30

March 03, 2021 Linguistics, Philosophy

Experimental evidence for restricted quantification, with Conservativity as a consequence.