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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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Nick and Chia-Hsuan in BUCLD Proceedings

June 05, 2018 Linguistics

"Learning attitude verb meanings in a morphologically-poor language," by Nick Huang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz, is now out in the Proceedings of BUCLD.

Philip receives Amazon Research Award

June 02, 2018 Linguistics

Philip Resnik's project on "Tackling the AI Mental Health Data Crisis" will be supported by an Amazon Machine Learning Research Award.

Three talks at London by Valentine

June 01, 2018 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard gives three talks on the acquisition of modals and attitudes at UCL, reporting on with a work with a number of student and faculty collaborators.

Champaign for Jeff Green!

May 31, 2018 Linguistics

Jeffrey Green is to be Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign starting, with a focus on psycho- and neurolinguistics.

2018 at the Guatemala Field Station

May 23, 2018 Linguistics

A new international group is at the Guatemala Field Station, for two weeks of intensive Kaqchikel, then two weeks of research with local languages: Kaqchikel, Tz'utujil, Q'anjob'al, and Chuj.

Rodrigo, Paulina and Ted awarded grant

May 18, 2018 Linguistics

"Verbal Agreement in Santiago Tz'utujiil", a project led by Rodrigo Ranero, Paulina Lyskawa, and former postdoc Ted Levin's, has been awarded a grant from Jacobs Research Funds.

Jeff on Second Year Syntax at alma mater

May 16, 2018 Linguistics

Jeffrey Lidz gives a colloquium talk at Northwestern, "Second Year Syntax," which includes discussion of joint work with Laurel Perkins.

White, Hacquard and Lidz in Cognitive Science

May 15, 2018 Linguistics

Out in Cognitive Science, "Semantic information and the syntax of propositional attitude verbs," from 2015 alum Aaron White with Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz.

Masha on Tongan at AFLA in Taiwan

May 08, 2018 Linguistics

The 25th Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, in Taipe, has invited talks from Maria Polinsky and Matt Wagers *08.

Angela hired by Alexis for NSF project