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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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HSP at UMD, UMD at HSP

March 24, 2022 Linguistics

Maryland hosts satellite of the 35th Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

Polina at PLC46

March 11, 2022 Linguistics

On dative in Moksha.

Maša's 888 in LI

March 05, 2022 Linguistics

Even adjectival participles can be eventive.

Masha on exceptions at NYU

March 04, 2022 Linguistics

How to talk about exceptions in the languages of all the planets except Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Mina to Amazon in Boston

March 02, 2022 Linguistics

Language Engineer for Alexa AI-Local Information division
Maryland Today

MPower Partnership Announces $3M in Seed Grants for Collaborative Research

March 02, 2022 Linguistics

17 joint UMCP-UMB projects target vital topics.

Masha at Illinois Language and Linguistics Society

March 01, 2022 Linguistics

Arguing that all syntax is experimental.

Colin to head Section Z of the AAAS

February 18, 2022 Linguistics

Flying the flag for language in the science ecosystem.

NSF support for Hanna and Yu'an

February 16, 2022 Linguistics

Dissertation improvement grants on comprehension illusions and the acquisition of question marking.

Valentine and Jeff in Handbook of Mental Lexicon

February 15, 2022 Linguistics

On acquiring the modal vocabulary, and using syntax as evidence of meaning.