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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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2021 alums on Tz’utujil agreement in Linguistic Variation

November 03, 2021 Linguistics

Rodrigo and Paulina on optional agreement as success or failure of Agree.

Terps virtually at BUCLD

November 01, 2021 Linguistics

On acquiring argument structure and speech categories.

Yu'an a finalist for LSA's Five-Minute Linguist event

October 22, 2021 Linguistics

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

Walters Museum program on Mayan Languages with Masha

October 08, 2021 Linguistics

In observance of Indigenous Peoples Day.
Maryland Today

NSF Grant Funds Research at Planet Word Museum

October 08, 2021 Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center

$440K award will put scholars on D.C. site, support new course for students to learn to conduct studies in real-world settings.

Maša at Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle

October 07, 2021 Linguistics

On temporality in Mayan languages.

Laurel in PNAS with Jeff

October 04, 2021 Linguistics

Evidence that 18-month olds already represent filler-gap dependencies.

Naomi wins NSF Grant

October 03, 2021 Linguistics

Support for computational modeling of phonetic learning.

Masha on Tongan in Clemens & Massam anthology on Polynesian syntax

October 02, 2021 Linguistics

Deriving VOS from VSO in Tongan.

Omer at Cornell

September 27, 2021 Linguistics

Omer on natural language without semiosis.