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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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Maryland psycholinguistics in Iceland

June 21, 2019 Linguistics

Parsing and Prediction' in Reykjavík has work by Phoebe Gaston and Hanna Muller, along with Ellen Lau and Colin Phillips, and a number of past visitors, Baggetts, and alumni.

Tim Hunter tenured at UCLA

June 19, 2019 Linguistics

2010 alum Tim Hunter is now Associate Professor of Linguistics at UCLA, with tenure.

Angela to Chinese University of Hong Kong

June 17, 2019 Linguistics

Angela He becomes Research Assistant Professor in the Brain and Mind Institute at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Anna to NIMH

June 16, 2019 Linguistics

Anna Namyst is now Lab Manager for the National Institute of Mental Health MEG Core facility in Bethesda.

Incoming student wins grant on Kaqchikel

June 05, 2019 Linguistics

Incoming grad student Polina Pleshak is awarded research support for a project on the "Syntax of referential nominal phrases and nominalization in Kaqchikel of Patzún."

Masha directs 11th Heritage Language Institute

June 03, 2019 Linguistics

The 11th Heritage Language Research Institute takes place at the University of New Mexico, organized by Maria Polinsky, its Director, with talks and workshops on a wide variety of Heritage Languages.

Sigwan in Vancouver for CLA/ACL

May 27, 2019 Linguistics

Sigwan Thivierge talks about "Phase Unlocking in Georgian" at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, at the University of British Columbia.

Three talks in Tromsø by Omer

May 24, 2019 Linguistics

Omer Preminger gives three talks in Tromsø at the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics at the Arctic University of Norway.

Omer, Paulina, Rodrigo and Chris win grant

May 23, 2019 Linguistics

For "Whistling on Tiptoes: Investigating Rare Lexical Categories in Tz’utujil (Mayan)," The Jacobs Research Funds has awarded a grant to Omer Preminger, Paulina Lyskawa, Rodrigo Ranero and former Baggett Fellow Chris Baron.

Ellen and Valentine promoted!