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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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Tyler on 'more' and 'most' in Oregon

October 06, 2017 Linguistics

Tyler Knowlton presents his work at the Cognitive Development Society: "Sentences, Centers, and Sets: Set Selection and the Meanings of More and Most."

Terps across town at 7th MACSIM

October 01, 2017 Linguistics

Georgetown hosts MACSIM, with a talk by Laurel Perkins and posters by Anouk Dieuleveut, Tyler Knowlton, and the group of Annemarie van Dooren, Gesoel Mendes and Nick Huang.

Adam and Chris Heffner in LL&D

September 29, 2017 Linguistics

Now in Language Learning & Development from Adam Liter, "The Interpretation of Plural Morphology and (Non-)Obligatory Number Marking: an Argument from Artificial Language Learning, co-authored with 2017 alum Chris Heffner and former teacher at MSU.

Laurel talking in New Brunswick, NJ

September 25, 2017 Linguistics

Laurel Perkins present "Perceiving transitivity: Consequences for verb learning" at a Rutgers workshop on Word Learning and Linguistic Theory, reporting her work with Jeffrey Lidz, Naomi Feldman and Alexander Williams.

Psycho Linguists again rock Ragnar

September 23, 2017 Linguistics

Skål to 12 Maryland language scientists, who ran the 207 miles of the Ragnar Relay, in 31 hours, 10 minutes and 38 seconds, finishing 23rd overall out of more than 230 squads!

Laurel at MIT workshop on learning

September 18, 2017 Linguistics

Laurel Perkins presents "Learning to Filter Non-Basic Clauses for Argument Structure Acquisition" at MIT's Workshop on Simplicity and Grammar Learning.

Bill and Jeff Heinz on computational phonology

September 07, 2017 Linguistics

Now out, a special issue of "Phonology" on "Computational phonology today," edited by Bill Idsardi and Stony Brook's Jeff Heinz.

Welcome to three new visitors!

September 06, 2017 Linguistics

Say hello to our three international visitors: Daisuke Hirai from Kindai University (Japan), Masataka Yano from Tohoku University (Japan), and Sergio López Sancio from the University of the Basque Country (Spain).

Saskia's work with Jeff and Valentine at SuB

September 05, 2017 Linguistics

In Berlin at Sinn und Bedeutung 22, "Children's comprehension of pronouns and definites" by Saskia Brockmann, Sara McConnell, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz.

Masha on Mayan at TyLex in Moscow

August 31, 2017 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky teaches a class on Mayan languages from a cross-linguistic perspective at the International Summer School on Typology and Lexis, hosted by the HSE at Moscow.