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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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Yu'an earns Honorable Mention in LSA's 5ML

January 09, 2022 Linguistics

Five honorable minutes on learning to Identify questions in early speech to children.

Maša and Paulina co-teaching Intro Syntax at NYI

January 01, 2022 Linguistics

Winter Session 2022 at the NY-St. Petersburg Institute

Maryland at LSA in DC

December 24, 2021 Linguistics

9 presentations on syntax, semantics, phonology, phonetics, acquisition and outreach.

A Message to Winter 2021 Graduates

December 17, 2021 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, Art, Classics, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill addresses graduating students.

Polina at Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 6

December 13, 2021 Linguistics

On stress placement in Hill Mari

Dan talking to Leibniz ZAS speech act group

December 13, 2021 Linguistics

On the acquisition of relations between clause types and speech acts.

Maša on Raising at the Austrian Linguistics Conference

December 11, 2021 Linguistics

Virtually in Vienna for the "Crossing Boundaries Workshop"

Masha at UBC on exceptives

December 08, 2021 Linguistics

"Those these be exceptions, yet there is method in them."
Maryland Today

Researcher Studies What’s Behind Baby Talk

November 15, 2021 Linguistics

A new study by linguistics Professor Jeffrey Lidz shows children grasp syntax earlier than you might think.