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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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Terps in Ann Arbor for HSP

May 02, 2024 Linguistics

Psycholinguistic Terrapins among the Michiganders.

Nika to Frankfurt and then Oregon

April 28, 2024 Linguistics

Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oregon.

Clara at Arabic Linguistics Workshop

April 19, 2024 Linguistics

Accounting for Arabic verbal morphology with Precedence Based Phonology

Mayfest 2024

April 17, 2024 Linguistics

The science of linguistic diversity.

Sathvik wins NSF GRFP support

April 10, 2024 Linguistics

Support for computational modeling in support of psycholinguistic theory.

Jeff at UCLA

April 04, 2024 Linguistics

Colloquium talk in the City of Angels and Terrapins.

Luisa, Jéssica and Caleb at Berkeley for WCCFL

March 29, 2024 Linguistics

You go where in case you want syntax and semantics?

Utku in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience