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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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Maša Bešlin at the Slavic Linguistic Society

August 30, 2021 Linguistics

On the distribution of object pronouns in Serbo-Croatian.

Welcome to the *26ers!

August 27, 2021 Linguistics

Six new PhD students join us as in-person work (carefully) resumes.

Polina virtually in Hungary

August 25, 2021 Linguistics

On small nominals in locatives at a workshop on Uralic.

New jobs for alumni

August 09, 2021 Linguistics

New positions and homecomings for several recent graduates.

Shohini and Philip at ACL

August 08, 2021 Linguistics

On interpreting surprisal and fMRI responses in mapping the neural bases of prediction in language processing.

Sigwan to faculty at Concordia in Montréal

July 28, 2021 Linguistics

Assistant Professor of First Peoples Studies and Linguistics.

Bill on pattern recognition in primates

July 22, 2021 Linguistics

Evidence that nonhuman animals could handle phonology does not extend to syntax.

Virtual white nights for Maryland at NYI Petersburg

July 12, 2021 Linguistics

Omer and Masha teaching courses with Maša and Polina.

Lasnik Award for both Hanna and Rodrigo

July 01, 2021 Linguistics

Rodrigo and Hanna awarded for their excellent teaching.