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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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Hello Ted Levin, new postdoc

August 31, 2015 Linguistics

Say hello to Theodore Levin (Ted), who recently completed a PhD at MIT, "Licensing without Case."

Warm welcome to PhDs of 2020

August 27, 2015 Linguistics

The class of 2020: Annemarie van Dooren (Leiden), Chia-Hsuan Liao (Taiwan Normal), Maxime Papillon (Concordia, Ottawa), Paulina Lyskawa (Toronto), Phoebe Gaston (Yale, NYU), and Suyoung Bae (Dongguk), with Rodrigo Ranero (Pomona, Cambridge)

Welcome our new Baggetts, Mina and Chris

August 24, 2015 Linguistics

A warm welcome to Mina Hirzel and Chris Baron, our two new Baggett Fellows.

Dustin Chacón to NYU

August 21, 2015 Linguistics

Dustin Chacón is to be a Faculty Fellow in Linguistics at NYU, teaching courses there for the coming year.

Angela He to postdoc at Boston University

August 14, 2015 Linguistics

Angela Xiaoxue He begins a postdoc with Sudha Arunachalam in her Child Language Lab at Boston University.

Masaya and Wing-Yee, invited at EAPC3

August 01, 2015 Linguistics

The 3rd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium has two alums as invited speakers: Masaya Yoshida *06 and Wing-Yee Chow, *13.

Baggett alumna to faculty at Duke

July 27, 2015 Linguistics

Baggett alum Elika Bergelson joins Duke University as Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Omer on Case in Sakha

July 27, 2015 Linguistics

Now out in the proceedings of WAFL, Preminger and Kornfilt's "Nominative as no case at all: An argument from raising-to-ACC in Sakha".

Computational linguists at ACL in Beijing

July 18, 2015 Linguistics

Naho, Naomi, Philip and Hal, have work at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Maryland in Pasadena at CogSci 2015

July 12, 2015 Linguistics

CogSci has two Terp posters, with work by Alayo, Naomi and Bill from Linguistics, as well as Alison Shell, Jared Linck and Bob Slevc from Psychology and CASL.