Department news

Mayfest 2025

Constraints on meaning.

October 26, 2024 Linguistics

Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar

Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.

July 01, 2024 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Fall 2024 Leadership Appointments

Dean Stephanie Shonekan announces new leadership appointments.

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.

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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.

Welcome class of 2022!

August 25, 2017 Linguistics

A warm greeting to Adam, Hanna, Hisao, Jackie and Yu'an, now only 5 years from being Maryland Linguistics alumni!

Ted to post-doc in Singapore

August 24, 2017 Linguistics

Theodore Levin is off to the National University of Singapore for a postdoc with Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine.

Lidz, White & Baier in Cognitive Psychology

August 21, 2017 Linguistics

Out at last, "The role of incremental parsing in syntactically conditioned word learning" by Jeffrey Lidz, Aaron Steven White (PhD 2015), and former RA Rebecca Baier, in Cognitive Psychology.

Welcome Bethany and Maggie

August 20, 2017 Linguistics

Say hello to our new Baggett, Bethany Dickserson, and to Margaret Kandel, Colin's new RA.

Colin named LSA Fellow

August 11, 2017 Linguistics

Colin Phillips is one of eight linguists named LSA Fellows for 2018, joining Howard Lasnik and Maria Polinsky.

Colin and Kush co-teaching in Oslo

August 09, 2017 Linguistics

At The Norwegian Summer Institute on Language and Mind, Colin Phillips and alum Dave Kush are lecturing on "Real-time Grammatical Computation," alongside other courses taught by alums Terje Lohndal and Lisa Pearl.

Dudley to postdoc at ENS in Paris

August 01, 2017 Linguistics

Rachel Dudley is off to the Department of Cognitive Studies at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, for a two-year postdoc with Salvador Mascarenhas and Emmanuel Chemla.

Arhu Faculty Earn Promotions And Tenure

August 01, 2017 College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, Linguistics, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Thirteen faculty members from the College of Arts and Humanities were awarded tenured positions and promotions to full professor.