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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Happy Birthday Casper Anandan!

September 24, 2018 Linguistics

On Sepatember 21, Valentine Hacquard and husband Tarek welcomed a beautiful baby boy, Casper Anandan.

Phoebe and Christian in Edmonton

September 23, 2018 Linguistics

At the International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Phoebe Gaston argues that “Syntactic category facilitates rather than inhibits lexical competition” in a poster with co-authors Ellen Lau and Colin Phillips.

Omer in Göttingen on anaphora and agreement

September 20, 2018 Linguistics

Omer Preminger delivers "The Anaphor Agreement Effect: Further evidence against anaphora-as-agreement" at LinG1, the first edition of a new annual workshop hosted by Linguistics in Göttingen at the Georg-August University.

Maryland in Georgian news

September 16, 2018 Linguistics

Georgian press report on the 2nd South Caucasian Chalk Circle conference, co-organized by Maria Polinsky and supported in part by the Maryland Language Science Center.

Ellen on Long Island at Stony Brook

September 08, 2018 Linguistics

Ellen presents "The search for neural indices of syntactic structure" at Stony Brook's Linguistics colloquium.

Thomas Schatz in Philly at CCN

September 04, 2018 Linguistics

Thomas Schatz is at the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience in Philadelphia, with a poster on joint work with Naomi Feldman: "Neural network vs. HMM speech recognition systems as models of human cross-linguistic phonetic perception."

Allyson starts research position in Chicago

August 31, 2018 Linguistics

Allyson Ettinger is now Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute, "a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute, dedicated to basic research and graduate education in computer science."

Dan in Barcelona for Sinn und Bedeutung

August 30, 2018 Linguistics

Daniel Goodhue discusses "High negation questions and epistemic bias" at the 23rd annual Sinn und Bedeutung conference, held this year at the the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Masha, Annemarie and Sigwan in Tblisi teaching syntax and semantics

August 29, 2018 Linguistics

The South Caucasian Chalk Circle hosts its second annual Summer School in linguistics, at Ilia State University in Tblisi, codirected by Maria Polinsky and Léa Nash.

Welcome to Thomas Schatz

August 28, 2018 Linguistics

Say Hello to Thomas Schatz, our second new postdoc.