Department news

Mayfest 2025

Constraints on meaning.

October 26, 2024 Linguistics

Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar

Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.

July 01, 2024 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Fall 2024 Leadership Appointments

Dean Stephanie Shonekan announces new leadership appointments.

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.

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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.

Omer and Maša at 14th Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis Conference

September 19, 2021 Linguistics

Virtually in Novi Sad, on needs and signs.

Dan at Sinn und Bedeutung

September 18, 2021 Linguistics

Using this sentence means I'm asking a question?

Clara, Imane and Luisa in Global UMD newletter

September 17, 2021 Linguistics

Representing second-year international students newly arrived in College Park.

Omer at the Brazilian Linguistics Association

September 13, 2021 Linguistics

On the finite means that we make infinite use of.

Way more Terps are talking in Konstanz than Colin has

September 11, 2021 Linguistics

Colin, Hanna, and several alums presenting at workshop on Linguistic Illusions in Sentence Processing.

Tyler in Linguistics and Philosophy

September 10, 2021 Linguistics

On the psychological representations that give the meanings of "every" and "each".

Masha at IJPCP

September 09, 2021 Linguistics

On exceptives at the International Symposium in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives.