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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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Kronrod et al. on phonetic perception

December 04, 2016 Linguistics

Now out Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, "A unified account of categorical effects in phonetic perception" by 2014 alum Yakov Kronrod, with Naomi Feldman and Emily Coppess.

Paulina at 12th FDSL in Berlin

December 01, 2016 Linguistics

Paulina Lyskawa presents "Separating universal principles from attrition and transfer in heritage language" at the conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages.

Jeff with alums in Natural Language Semantics

November 30, 2016 Linguistics

Now in Natural Language Semantics, "On how verification tasks are related to verification procedures" from Jeffrey Lidz, with alumni Tim Hunter and Alexis Wellwood, as well as Darko Odic.

Jeff defends Chomsky in Scientific American

November 30, 2016 Linguistics

Jeffrey Lidz responds to recent claims that Chomsky's views on language and its acquisition have been discredited.

2016-17 Scholarship Recipients

November 15, 2016 American Studies, Classics, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Chinese, French, Romance Languages, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

ARHU is pleased to announce the 2016-17 Senior Scholars, Scholarship Recipients and Freshmen Scholars.

Terps in Yucatán at FAMLi4

November 09, 2016 Linguistics

The 4th Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics features talks by Rodrigo, Paulina, Gesoel, Ted and Chris Baron, as well as Pedro Mateo Pedro, director of the the field station in Guatemala.

Stanford colloquium with Colin Phillips

November 07, 2016 Linguistics

Colin Phillips is at Stanford Linguistics giving their colloquium talk.

Paulina in Vancouver at NWAV 45

November 04, 2016 Linguistics

Paulina Lyskawa presents "Converging vs. competing phonology: Does code-switching play a predictable role?" at the 45th New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV).

Rachel talking at Harvard

November 03, 2016 Linguistics

Rachel Dudley presents her work at Harvard, in a joint lab meeting of the Rowe Lab, run by former Terrapin Meredith Rowe, and the Early Childhood Lab, run by Paul Harris.

Ted in Korea for a week of lectures

November 01, 2016 Linguistics

Theodore Levin is at Seoul National University for a series of lectures on case and nominal licensing.