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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.
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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Chia-Hsuan and Ellen in LC&N

March 04, 2020 Linguistics

Now in print, "Enough time to get results? An ERP investigation of prediction with complex events" by Chia-Hsuan Liao with advisor Ellen Lau, in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

WCCFL 38 in Vancouver

February 28, 2020 Linguistics

Yu'an Yang presents "Do children know "whanything"?" at WCCFL 38, joint work with Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz.

Polina and Jad at ECO-5

February 18, 2020 Linguistics

Polina Pleshak and Jad Wehbe are at ECO-5, with "Small nominals in locative phrases" and "Unifying counterfactual and past tense uses of 'kaan' in Lebanese Arabic."

Phoebe at Cornell

February 08, 2020 Linguistics

Phoebe Gaston gives the colloquium talk at Cornell Linguistics, on “The role of syntactic context in auditory word recognition.'

Ellen on U.K. tour

February 05, 2020 Linguistics

This week in London, York and Bristol, Ellen Lau presents three talks on the neuroscience of syntactic and semantic working memory representations.

Masha in Norway this Spring

February 03, 2020 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky is in Oslo for "MultiGender: A multilingual approach to grammatical gender," a research project led by Marit Westergaard and UMD alum Terje Lohndal.

Say hello to David Lebeaux

January 31, 2020 Linguistics

Welcome faculty affiliate David Lebeaux, who will visit us occasionally, using the Emeritus Office.

Rodrigo wins summer grant on ellipsis

January 28, 2020 Linguistics

DC's Cosmos Club will support Rodrigo Ranero's "The syntax of silence in Santiago Tz'utujiil, and endangered Mayan language," a project Rodrigo will undertake this summer, furthering his work on ellipsis.

Update on Alayo's research from U Minnesota

January 26, 2020 Linguistics

A report on Alayo Tripp's postdoctoral research with Ben Munson, on "Race, ethnicity, and speech intelligibility in normal hearing and hearing impairment."

Shota, Julia, Colin and Bob Slevc in Cognition

January 24, 2020 Linguistics

Now in Cognition, "Syntactic category constrains lexical competition in speaking" by alum Shota Momma with former RA Julia Buffinton and faculty mentors Colin Phillips and Bob Slevc from Psychology.