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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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Luisa talking at NYU

October 20, 2022 Linguistics

On the decomposition of A-movement in the Valley of Aosta.

Masha in Paris

October 16, 2022 Linguistics

Keynoting the 3rd Heritage Language Syntax Conference.

Maryland at SNL in Philly

October 04, 2022 Linguistics

On brains and language in Philadelphia.

Masha in Cyprus and Israel

October 03, 2022 Linguistics

On the nature of heritage languages.

Sterling named Merrill Presidential Scholar, Jeff honored as mentor

October 02, 2022 Linguistics

UMD's most successful seniors and their faculty mentors.

Valentine is in Michigan?

September 21, 2022 Linguistics

Yes, but only virtually, talking about how babies acquire clause types and their function.

Annemarie in Journal of Semantics with Anouk, Ailís and Valentine

September 21, 2022 Linguistics

The role of input in figuring out root and epistemic uses of modals.

Luisa in Naples for Cambridge Italian Dialects Syntax and Morphology Meeting

September 17, 2022 Linguistics

On clause-internal wh-words in Valdôtian Patois

Kasia and Naomi in PNAS

September 16, 2022 Linguistics

How do infants learn which acoustic dimensions of their language are contrastive?

Masha giving 3 talks in Estonia