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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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.

Kasia Hitczenko at NECphon

October 30, 2015 Linguistics

Kasia Hitczenko presents "Modeling adaptation to a novel accent" at the Northeast Computational Phonology Workshop.

Neomi Rao elected Dean's Senior Scholar

October 28, 2015 Linguistics

Neomi Rao - Linguistics major, PULSAR student, and Summer Fellow&ndash - is named a Senior Scholar by the College of Arts and Humanities.

Submariners surface in Frontiers

October 27, 2015 Linguistics

Now in Frontiers in Psychology, "Processing Implicit Control" by Mike McCourt, Jeffrey Green, Ellen Lau and Alexander Williams.

Paulina Lyskawa at NWAV44 in Toronto

October 26, 2015 Linguistics

Paulina is at NWAV presenting "Heritage speakers abide by all the rules: Evidence of language-contact effects in Heritage Polish word-final devoicing," a poster with UToronto colleagues Emilia Melara and Ruth Maddeaux.

Paul at Arizona

October 16, 2015 Linguistics

Paul Pietroski presents "Semantic Internalism" as part of the Linguistics Colloquium at Arizona.

Baron at NELS

October 14, 2015 Linguistics

Baggett Fellow Chris Baron presents Generalized Concept Generators at the first poster session of this year's NELS.

Terps at SNL in Second City

October 12, 2015 Linguistics

The Society for the Neurobiology of Language hosts presentations by Phoebe, William, Natalia, Anna and Ellen; plus alumni Diogo Almeida, Akira Omaki, Utako Minai and Rob Fiorentino; and former postdocs Ming and Mathias.