Department news

Mayfest 2025

Constraints on meaning.

October 26, 2024 Linguistics

Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar

Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.

July 01, 2024 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Fall 2024 Leadership Appointments

Dean Stephanie Shonekan announces new leadership appointments.

June 30, 2024 Linguistics

New Chair

Jeff Lidz takes the helm.

May 21, 2023 Linguistics

Premvanti Patel featured in Washington Post

Linguistics major highlighted in relation to computer science and humanities.

February 16, 2023 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Linguistics, American Studies, Communication, Philosophy, School of Music, English, History, National Foreign Language Center

ARHU Faculty Awarded Grand Challenges Grants

The grants fund $30 million to UMD faculty focused on groundbreaking, impactful research that will shape the future of our community, state, nation and world.

February 16, 2022 Linguistics

NSF support for Hanna and Yu'an

Dissertation improvement grants on comprehension illusions and the acquisition of question marking.

November 15, 2021 Linguistics

Researcher Studies What’s Behind Baby Talk

A new study by linguistics Professor Jeffrey Lidz shows children grasp syntax earlier than you might think.

October 08, 2021 Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center

NSF Grant Funds Research at Planet Word Museum

$440K award will put scholars on D.C. site, support new course for students to learn to conduct studies in real-world settings.

October 04, 2021 Linguistics

Laurel in PNAS with Jeff

Evidence that 18-month olds already represent filler-gap dependencies.

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Xinchi to Lyon

June 28, 2025 Linguistics

Postdoc with Liuba Papeo funded by Fyssen.

Sarah wins Lasnik Award

June 22, 2025 Linguistics

Honoring excellence in teaching by graduate students.

Valentine wins university grant with Elizabeth and Will

June 13, 2025 Linguistics

Support for work on the acquisition of mental state verbs.

Seven ARHU Faculty Awarded 2025–26 Faculty-Student Research Awards

June 11, 2025 American Studies, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Faculty-led research explores diverse topics—from Indigenous queer history to climate narratives in Ghana—advancing scholarship and graduate research across the humanities.

Craig Thorborn to U. Chicago

June 02, 2025 Linguistics

Teaching computational linguistics.

Terrapin hatchlings head for PhDs

June 01, 2025 Linguistics

On the way to UCLA, UConn, Chicago, the UW and Maryland.

Xinchi in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

May 30, 2025 Linguistics

Mapping the neural taxonomy of mental objects in moment-to-moment cognition.

Maryland Today

AIM Seed Grants Support 22 AI Research Projects

May 28, 2025 Art, Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music

Funds support research focused on accessibility, social justice, sustainability and learning.

Valentine at UCLA

May 23, 2025 Linguistics

Anankastics at alma mater.