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Linguistics

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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Bill and UMD on animal communication

November 21, 2019 Linguistics

What can animal communication teach us about human language?, asks a special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, edited by Bill Idsardi with Jonathan B. Fritz from NYU and Gerald S. Wilkinson from UMD Biology.

Jeff all SMH NMH on interwebs lingo

November 14, 2019 Linguistics

Listen to Jeffrey Lidz answer the question "How is the internet changing language for kids?" on the In Plain Language podcast.

Howard in Guangzhou (but not Hong Kong)

November 14, 2019 Linguistics

Howard Lasnik gives three talks in Guangzhou, China.

Annemarie, Nick and Gesoel on 'want' in Ohio

November 07, 2019 Linguistics

"Polysemous "want": Language change from a synchronic perspective," by Annemarie van Dooren, Gesoel Mendes and 2019 alum Nick Huang is at Formal Diachronic Semantics 4 in Columbus, Ohio.

Syntax and Dance

November 06, 2019 Linguistics

Linguistics professor Howard Lasnik is also a long-time Scottish country dancer.

Maryland in Boston on babies

October 25, 2019 Linguistics

BUCLD has work by Mina Hirzel, recent alums Alayo Tripp, Kasia Hitczenko, Laurel Perkins, and several collaborating faculty: Valentine Hacquard, Jeffrey Lidz, Alexander Williams, Naomi Feldman, and Bill Idsardi.

Masha headlines Arizona conference

October 24, 2019 Linguistics

The 13th Arizona Linguistics Circle, on the theme of "Research across linguistic subfields," has Maria Polinsky giving a keynote talk.

LSA SIG on Native Americans in Linguistics

October 22, 2019 Linguistics

Sigwan Thivierge is an original member of Natives4Linguistics, a new Special Interest Group convened under the auspices the Linguistic Society of America.

Maryland at MIT for NELS 50

October 19, 2019 Linguistics

NELS50 has talks by Aaron Doliana, Paolo Santorio from Philosophy, and 2015 alum Aaron Steven White.

Alum wins first LSA C.L. Baker Award

October 18, 2019 Linguistics

Jon Sprouse *07 IS first recipient of an LSA award to honor "excellence for scholarship in syntax" by a mid-career researcher, endowed by the family of the late C.L. Baker.