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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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Society for Neurobiology of Language in Baltimore

November 10, 2017 Linguistics

SNL has work by Mina Hirzel, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Phoebe Gaston, with Ellen Lau, Jeffrey Lidz, former postdoc William Matchin and former RA Natalia Lapinskaya.

Terps on clausal complements in Berlin

November 09, 2017 Linguistics

Berlin's SelectionFest 2017 has an invited talk by 2015 alum Aaron White, and a talk by Nick Huang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz.

Andrea recognized as Community Champion

November 02, 2017 Linguistics

Andrea Zukowski's leadership of College Park Parkrun has led our Office of Community Engagement to select her as 2017 Community Champion, one of their "Making a Difference Awards."

Penguin project earns Best Paper at LL&D

October 31, 2017 Linguistics

Angela He wins the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award from the editors of Language Learning and Development for "Verb learning in 14- and 18-month-old English-learning Infants."

Autumnal migration of Terrapins to Boston

October 27, 2017 Linguistics

BUCLD 42 has work by Nick Huang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Laurel Perkins and Mina Hirzel, alongside Valentine Hacquard, Alexander Williams, Jeffrey Lidz and Naomi Feldman, as well as HESP faculty Jan Edwards and Yi Ting Huang.

Valentine on attitudes in L.A.

October 25, 2017 Linguistics

At the USC linguistics colloquium Valentine Hacquard presents work on acquisition of attitude verb meanings that she has done with Rachel Dudley, Kate Harrigan, Aaron White, Shevaun Lewis and others, through her NSF project with Jeffrey Lidz.

Laurel at Harvard for Halloween

October 24, 2017 Linguistics

Halloween at Harvard's Language Development Lab, in their Language & Cognition talk series, Laurel Perkins presents joint work with Jeffrey Lidz, Naomi Feldman and Alexander Williams on verb learning in infancy.

Maryland at NELS in Reykjavík

October 19, 2017 Linguistics

NELS 48 has work by Nick Huang, Omer Preminger and Maria Polinsky, as well as Maryland PhDs Aaron White, Alex Drummond and Terje Lohndal, and BA alum Emma Nguyen.

Julie in Frontiers on acquisition of control

October 18, 2017 Linguistics

Now in "Frontiers in Psychology" from 2016 alum Juliana Gerard, "Similarity-based interference and the acquisition of adjunct control," co-authored with Jeffrey Lidz and two collaborators at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics.

Fall 2017 Arhu Leadership Announcements

October 10, 2017 History, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Linguistics, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

New leadership appointments for the 2017-18 academic year.