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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Masha in New York City

February 20, 2024 Linguistics

The antipassive across languages and theories.

Terp FAMLi in Mexico

February 14, 2024 Linguistics

Maša and Masha at the 7th Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics.

Book and chapters on Hill Mari by Polina

February 12, 2024 Linguistics

"Elements of Hill Mari from the typological point of view."

Jeff with Team Most in Psychological Science

January 30, 2024 Linguistics

Visual apprehension of magnitude is scaled relative to the perceived top and bottom.

Xinchi in Frontiers on event roles in working memory

January 24, 2024 Linguistics

The neural format for representing events in working memory.

Maša at NELS

January 23, 2024 Linguistics

Domain mismatches in syntax and morphology.

Valentine at Penn

January 23, 2024 Linguistics

Must the force be with you?

Elizabeth in journal of Language Development Research

January 16, 2024 Linguistics

Rapid adaptation to novel syntax in word learning.

Aron giving a talk at 8th Virtual NYI

January 08, 2024 Linguistics

On constraining alternatives.

Anouk in Journal of Semantics

December 15, 2023 Linguistics

Why can Sam see Saturn when she can see Saturn?