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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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Gleebest paper in LL&D

January 06, 2016 Linguistics

Now in Language Learning & Development from Alexis *14, Annie *12 and Jeff, "Syntactic and Lexical Inference in the Acquisition of Novel Superlatives."

Two Rachels in Germany at TiXPrag1

January 06, 2016 Linguistics

Rachels Dudley and Adler are at Trends in Experimental Pragmatics presenting "Using corpus methods can begin to address how children acquire presupposition triggers" and “The time course of verbal irony comprehension and context integration.”

Tim Dawson to RA with Trueswell & Gleitman

December 17, 2015 Linguistics

Graduating LING major Tim Dawson becomes a Research Specialist with John Trueswell and Lila Gleitman at UPenn's Department of Psychology in Philadelphia.

Colin leading two discussions along Oder

December 16, 2015 Linguistics

This week along the Oder in Wrocław, two meetings led by Colin Phillips at the Center for Experimental Research on Natural Language.

Masha on heritage language in Frontiers

December 04, 2015 Linguistics

Now in Frontiers, an article on the relevance of heritage linguistics to the study of linguistic competence, from Maria Polinsky and collaborators Gregory Scontras and Zuzanna Fuchs.

Colin, Masha on steering group for AAAS Sect. Z

December 03, 2015 Linguistics

Congratulations to Colin Phillips for his reëlection as a member-at-large of the steering group for Section Z of the American Academy for Advancement of Sciences, the section for "Linguistics and Language Science".

Kate, Angela, Alex, Jeff and Valentine at BUCLD

November 06, 2015 Linguistics

BUCLD features work by visitor Alex de Carvalho and alumnae Kate Harrigan and Angela He, done jointly with Jeff Lidz and Valentine Hacquard.

Kush accepts professorship in Norway!

November 02, 2015 Linguistics

2013 alumnus Dave Kush IS soon to be Onsager Associate Professor in Linguistics in Trondheim, Norway, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet).

Valentine on modality in Barcelona

November 01, 2015 Linguistics

THE Workshop on Modality Across Categories invites Valentine Hacquard to present "Constraints on modal variation across languages and development" at Universitat Pompeu Fabra University.

Happy Birthday August Green!

October 30, 2015 Linguistics

Allison and Jeffrey Green welcome their boy August, born just after midnight on October 29.