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Linguistics

Mayfest 2025

Constraints on meaning.

October 26, 2024 Linguistics

Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar

Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.

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.

August 09, 2021 Linguistics

New jobs for alumni

New positions and homecomings for several recent graduates.

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Welcome Jenna Baranov and Elvira Barkhatova

August 30, 2023 Linguistics

Here to do and learn to teach neurolinguistics.

Welcome Baggetts and Class of '28

August 26, 2023 Linguistics

Hello to Elizabeth and Xiaoyu, Allison, Nathalie and Sadira!

Welcome Aron Hirsch!

August 16, 2023 Linguistics

New Assistant Professor.

Masha in Armenia

August 14, 2023 Linguistics

Teaching at the Yerevan Academy for Linguistics and Philosophy.

Tyler in NALS with MD crew

August 08, 2023 Linguistics

Determiners express restricted quantifiers and not relations between sets.

Colin to Oxford

August 06, 2023 Linguistics

New Chair of Linguistics.

Maryland and experimental syntax

August 05, 2023 Linguistics

Oxford handbook features 10 chapters from 12 Terps.

Craig to UT Austin

August 03, 2023 Linguistics

Postdoctoral fellowship with Lori Holt.

Nika at Interspeech and Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

July 31, 2023 Linguistics

In Dublin and Oxford on selective attention to speech features.

Fedya in Ural-Altaic Studies

July 10, 2023 Linguistics

On pluractionality in Poshkart Chuvash.