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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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Masha in Germany

July 02, 2023 Linguistics

On multilingualism and apparent optionality.

Luisa in Paris

June 28, 2023 Linguistics

At LSRL 53 on Valdôtain Patois.

Maša and Jéssica win Lasnik Award

June 20, 2023 Linguistics

Recognizing excellent teaching by graduate students.

Masato to Saarbrücken

June 12, 2023 Linguistics

Postdoctoral research position with Matthew Crocker.

Luisa on the Balkan Sprachbund

June 12, 2023 Linguistics

Diglossia as the source of similarity across languages.

Masha and Imane at 14th Heritage Language Research Institute

June 08, 2023 Linguistics

On heritage language after the pandemic, and acquiring anti-agreement in Berber.

Welcome Baby Nathalie!

May 26, 2023 Linguistics

Polina and Mike Neumann welcome their daughter Nathalie, born May 25.

Ellen at UCLA

May 25, 2023 Linguistics

On the cognitive world-model in which sentences are interpreted.

RALFE in Nice with Maša and Luisa