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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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Maryland Language Scientists at CNS

April 01, 2013 Linguistics

Sol Lago and Wing Yee Chow presenting a poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in San Francisco.

Chris Heffner and Josh Falk win NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

March 29, 2013 Linguistics

Chris Heffner and Josh Falk have each been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for 2013-2016.

Zoe, Rachel and Dongwoo at ECO5

March 27, 2013 Linguistics

Zoe Schlueter, Rachel Dudley and Dongwoo Park give talks at the East Coast Workshop in Syntax, at UConn.

Maryland intern continues winning streak

March 22, 2013 Linguistics

Susan Ojo, an intern in our acquisition lab, won first place in her category again, this time at the regional science fair.

Maryland at CUNY in South Carolina

March 21, 2013 Linguistics

Bradley Larson, Dan Parker, Dave Kush, Dustin Chacón, Glynis MacMillan, Sol Lago, Shota Momma, Wing Yee Chow, Colin Phillips, and Jeffrey Lidz represent UMD Linguistics at the 26th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing in Ohio.

Brad Larson at Penn Linguistics Colloquium

March 21, 2013 Linguistics

Brad presents "Unelided basic remnants in Germanic ellipsis or: ÜBRIGE Arguments," at the 37th Penn Linguistics Colloquium at the University of the Pennsylvania.

Yakov Kronrod wins AAAS award

March 20, 2013 Linguistics

Yakov Kronrod was awarded the Honorable Mention at the 2013 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting Student Poster Competition in the Brain and Behavior category.

Shannon Barrios to University of Utah

March 14, 2013 Linguistics

Shannon Barrios is to be Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Maryland intern wins blue ribbon at school science fair

March 05, 2013 Linguistics

Susan Ojo, a senior at Eleanor Roosevelt High School who has been interning in our acquisition lab, has won first prize in the behavioral sciences category at her school's science fair.

Brad Larson in Potsdam

March 01, 2013 Linguistics

Brad Larson presents "The Inherent Syntactic Incompleteness of RNR" at the Parenthesis and Ellipsis workshop at the 35th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society in Potsdam, Germany.