Department news

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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Language Science Day Showcases Umd'S Uniquely Broad Expertise In Language

October 04, 2011 College of Arts and Humanities, English, Linguistics, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

The event brought together 200 researchers to improve awareness of language-related research at the university.

Norbert and Juan to talk in Potsdam

September 29, 2011 Linguistics

Norbert Hornstein and Juan Uriagereka give invited talks at the University Potsdam for "The Minimalist Program: Quo Vadis?"

Jeff Lidz to give Euro-XPrag keynote address

September 26, 2011 Linguistics

Jeff Lidz gives the keynote address at the European Experimental Pragmatics (Euro-XPrag) Pisa Workshop.

First MASCSLL a success

September 24, 2011 Linguistics

UMD and Hopkins organize first Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning.

Maryland linguists run 200 miles in 27.5 hours!

September 24, 2011 Linguistics

Congratulations to a team of 12 Maryland linguists, and their hometeam support crew, who took part in the Ragnar Relay on September 23-24 (2011). The relay covered a grueling 200-mile route from Cumberland, in the western tip of Maryland, to Washington DC

VL2 workshop on EEG and MEG by Wing Yee Chow and Sol Lago

September 19, 2011 Linguistics

Wing Yee Chow and Sol Lago taught a two-hour workshop on EEG and MEG in the NSF-funded Visual Language and Learning (VL2) Science of Learning Center hosted at Gallaudet University.

Recent publications by Howard Lasnik

September 19, 2011 Linguistics

Several new papers from Howard Lasnik.

Maryland Neuroimaging Center opens

September 13, 2011 Linguistics

Official opening ceremonies for the Maryland Neuroimaging Center.

Colin Phillips invited to give LAGB Lecture

September 08, 2011 Linguistics

Colin Phillips is giving the "Linguistics Association" Lecture at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain annual meeting in Manchester.

Welcome to Kristine Yu, new postdoc

September 06, 2011 Linguistics

Please greet new postdoc Kristine Yu. Kristine works on computational modeling of tone, prosody, and their acquisition.