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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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Kasia to Northwestern

August 01, 2019 Linguistics

Kasia Hitczenko heads to Northwestern for an NIH-funded postdoc with Matt Goldrick in Linguistics, Vijay Mittal in Psychology, and Joseph Keshet from Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University.

Laurel to Paris

July 26, 2019 Linguistics

Laurel Perkins has a postdoc with Anne Christophe at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique in the Ecole normale supérieure.

Cretan workshop on languages of Caucasus

July 24, 2019 Linguistics

The Crete Summer School of Linguistics has Maria Polinsky hosting a Workshop on the Languages of the Caucasus, with four talks and six posters.

Rodrigo supervising Field School

July 23, 2019 Linguistics

Rodrigo Ranero is in El Novillero, Guatemala, supervising an international group of scholars and students conducting field research with speakers of K’iche’.

Masha on understanding heritage languages

July 18, 2019 Linguistics

Bilingualism features a new keynote article from Maria Polinsky and Gregory Scontras on Understanding heritage languages.

Philip on computerized assessment of risk

July 15, 2019 Linguistics

The July 12 Congressional Quarterly has Philip Resnik answering Yes on their question of whether "computerized risk-assessment tools reduce the suicide rate."

Laurel wins Lasnik Teaching Award

July 14, 2019 Linguistics

Laurel Perkins is 2019 recipient of the Howard Lasnik Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student.

Omer teaching syntax in Russia

July 09, 2019 Linguistics

Omer Preminger teaches an Introduction to Syntax at the NY-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture.

Masha on field stations in Language

July 08, 2019 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky explains how Field stations for linguistic research help overcome the practical barriers to doing linguistic fieldwork, in the new issue of Language.

Shota Momma to UMass

June 22, 2019 Linguistics

Shota Momma is to be Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UMass Amherst, after a postdoc at UC San Diego with Tamar Gollan and Vic Ferreira.