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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Shayne Sloggett to UMass Linguistics

August 16, 2011 Linguistics

Shayne Sloggett is beginning the PhD program in linguistics at UMass Amherst, after one year as a Research Assistant to Colin Phillips in the pycholinguistics lab.

Brad Larson squib to appear in Linguistic Inquiry

July 26, 2011 Linguistics

Brad Larson's "A Dilemma with Accounts of Right Node Raising" is to appear in <i>Linguistic Inquiry</i>.

Jeffrey Heinz and Bill Idsardi in Science

July 26, 2011 Linguistics

The July 15 issue of <i>Science</i> includes "Sentence and Word Complexity", by Jeffrey Heinz (Delaware) and Bill Idsardi.

Shiti Malhotra to Northeastern University

July 22, 2011 Linguistics

Shiti Malhotra has accepted a lectureship in the Program in Linguistics at Northeastern University, for the coming academic year.

Alex Drummond to post-doc at Durham University

July 21, 2011 Linguistics

Alex Drummond is beginning a three-year postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University (England).

Summer PHLING

July 01, 2011 Linguistics

PHLING, the Philosophy & Linguistics reading group, will meet every Thursday this summer.

Jeff Lidz and Colin Phillips at LSA Institute

June 23, 2011 Linguistics

Jeffrey Lidz and Colin Phillips have been invited to teach courses this summer at the LSA Linguistic Institute, hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Yakov Kronrod wins NSF Summer Scholarship

June 09, 2011 Linguistics

Yakov Kronrod won an NSF Scholarship to attend the Machine Learning Summer School at Purdue University.

Shevaun Lewis wins College service award

June 06, 2011 Linguistics

Shevaun Lewis has won the College of Arts and Humanities Service award in the category of Graduate Student.

Faculty highlight: Naomi Feldman

June 03, 2011 Linguistics

Naomi Feldman joins the Department of Linguistics as an Assistant Professor in computational psycholinguistics.