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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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Gagliardi, Mease & Lidz in Language Acquisition

April 13, 2016 Linguistics

Now out, "Discontinuous Development in the acquisition of filler-gap dependencies" by 2012 alumna Annie Gagliardi, with Jeff Lidz and Tara Mease.

Maryland at MIT for ECO-5

April 11, 2016 Linguistics

Annemarie, Gesoel and Suyoung are at ECO-5, a graduate student workshop which this year features work from MIT, Harvard, UConn, UMass and Maryland.

Masha at Gallaudet on Heritage Signers

April 07, 2016 Linguistics

Maria Polinksy is invited to speak at a panel on Heritage Signers down at Gallaudet Linguistics, organized by Deborah Chen Pichler.

Idsardi and Phillips hit Oxford

April 06, 2016 Linguistics

Bill Idsardi and Colin Phillips are speaking at a Workshop on (Morpho-)Phonological Processing, organized by the Language and Brain Laboratory in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at University of Oxford.

Howard at Princeton with Sprouse and Chomsky

April 06, 2016 Linguistics

April 15 at a conference to honor Bob Freidin, Howard Lasnik joins his student Jon Sprouse and his teacher Noam Chomsky as a guest speaker at “Prospects for the Theory of Syntax”.

Tim Hunter to professorship at UCLA!

April 05, 2016 Linguistics

2010 alumnus Tim Hunter now joins the faculty at UCLA Linguistics, after several productive years at Minnesota.

Alexander teaching 6th Grade

April 04, 2016 Linguistics

Alexander Williams is at Kenmoor Middle School in Landover, beginning a series of monthly classes on linguistics for sixth graders.

Naomi in Amsterdam

April 03, 2016 Linguistics

Naomi Feldman in the Low Countries, explaining" How phonetic learners should use their input" at the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, within the University of Amsterdam.

Ewan and Alexis in the premiere Glossa

April 01, 2016 Linguistics

Just out in the debut of Glossa, alumni duo Dunbar and Wellwood's "Addressing the 'two interface' problem: Comparatives and Superlatives."

Polinsky and Longenbaugh at GLOW