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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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Ted, Paulina & Rodrigo in England at CamCoS7

May 07, 2018 Linguistics

The Cambridge Comparative Syntax conference has "Microvariation in the realization of Eastern Mayan number agreement" by Paulina Lyskawa and Rodrigo Ranero, with former postdoc Ted Levin.

Tyler on quantifiers at Johns Hopkins

May 06, 2018 Linguistics

Tyler Knowlton asks "Are natural language quantifiers first- or second-order?," in a talk at the Workshop on The Development of Set and Quantifier Representations at Johns Hopkins.

Max in Montreal for NAPhCX

May 05, 2018 Linguistics

Maxime Papillon is at Concordia for the 10th North American Phonology Conference, talking about "Match-Extend Serialization for Reduplication in Multiprecedence Phonology."

Cassidy Henry wins DoD Scholarship

April 30, 2018 Linguistics

Incoming PhD student Cassidy Henry wins a SMART Scholarship from the US Department of Defense.

Hanna, Hisao & Sigwan at ECO-5 in Amherst

April 23, 2018 Linguistics

This year's East Coast 5 meeting has work by Hanna Muller, Hisao Kurokami and Sigwan Thivierge.

Hacquard and Green with alums at 54th CLS

April 21, 2018 Linguistics

CLS has an invited talk by Valentine, plus a talk and a poster by Jeff Green, the former representing joint work with Michael McCourt, Ellen and Alexander.

Masha at Georgetown Morphosyntax Workshop

April 20, 2018 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky asks "How do I know I am in the right field?" at the Georgetown Morphosyntax Workshop.

Mina speaking at Michigan State

April 19, 2018 Linguistics

Mina Hirzel is a special alumni speaker at the Michigan State Undergraduate Linguistics Conference, "Local and long distance dependencies in 16 to 20 month-olds."

Terps in LA at WCCFL

April 12, 2018 Linguistics

WCCFL 36 has a poster from Gesoel Mendes plus two from philosophy student Quinn Harr, one co-authored with Alexander Williams

Jeff, Julie at UU for EMLAR XIV

April 09, 2018 Linguistics

Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research at Utrecht has a keynote by Jeffrey Lidz, "2nd year syntax," and a talk by alum Juliana Gerard, "Errors, predictions, and continuity in grammar and processing."