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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Yakov Kronrod awarded for AAAS

February 01, 2013 Linguistics

Yakov Kronrod was awarded the Joshua E. Neimark Memorial Travel Assistance Award.

Philip Resnik measuring reactions to Super Bowl

February 01, 2013 Linguistics

Philip Resnik's React Labs is working with Frank N. Magid Associates to measure consumers' reaction to the Super Bowl and its advertisement.

Masa Takahashi to Mie University

January 30, 2013 Linguistics

Masahiko Takahash has been appointed to a lectureship at Mie University (Japan) in the Liberal Arts Center.

Heinz and Idsardi in Topics in Cognitive Science

January 23, 2013 Linguistics

Just out, "What complexity differences reveal about domains in language" by Bill Idsardi and Delaware's Jeff Heinz.

Dave, Shevaun, and Brad at WCCFL in Tempe

January 22, 2013 Linguistics

Brad Larson will present "The what and when of processing coordinated-wh questions", joint work with Dave Kush and Shevaun Lewis, at the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Wing Yee Chow at UCL

January 12, 2013 Linguistics

Wing Yee is giving a talk at the Department of Linguistics at University College London: "Unfolding predictions in semantic interpretation: Insights from N400 blindness to thematic role reversals."

Valentine Hacquard at UNC Chapel Hill

January 09, 2013 Linguistics

Valentine presents "Children's Attitude Problems" at Mindreading, Understanding, and Emotion, a two-day conference at the University of North Carolina.

Valentine Hacquard in Wroclaw, Poland

January 02, 2013 Linguistics

Valentine presents "Modals: meaning categories?" at the University of Wroclaw, as a part of a workshop on categories in linguistic theory.

Maryland at the LSA in Boston

December 26, 2012 Linguistics

This year's LSA features several Maryland presentations.

Maryland linguists at local high schools

December 20, 2012 Linguistics

Jeffrey Lidz and Michaël Gagnon gave lectures to AP Psychology classes at Northwood High School (Silver Spring) and Paint Branch High School (Burtonsville).