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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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Terps in SuB Proceedings

October 01, 2025 Linguistics

On conditionals, alternatives and noun phrase semantics.

Kate and Lydia at AMP

September 24, 2025 Linguistics

On the similarity of consonants and the specialness of phonology.

Rodrigo on WCO with Masha

September 18, 2025 Linguistics

Weak Crossover in Spanish relative clauses.

Imane starts postdoc at Yale

September 15, 2025 Linguistics

Working on child Berber with Athulya Aravind.

Ellen in SLIME 4

September 15, 2025 Linguistics

New directions for neurobiology of semantics.

Kate at UMass

September 15, 2025 Linguistics

The difference between phonological and phonetic operations.

Valentine in Developmental Psychology

September 09, 2025 Linguistics, Philosophy

On the challenge of learning what "have to" means.

Maryland Today

UMD Researchers Will Use AI to Help Boost HPV Vaccine Confidence

September 08, 2025 Communication, Linguistics

New $2.8M NIH grant funds interdisciplinary chatbot project with UMB.

Maryland at SNL in DC

September 08, 2025 Linguistics

Six posters from Ellen and her students.