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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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Valentine at Santa Cruz colloquium

January 18, 2015 Linguistics

Valentine talks at the UC Santa Cruz linguistics colloquium, under the heading "Bootstrapping into attitudes."

H.S. RA semi-finalist in Intel Talent Search

January 13, 2015 Linguistics

Montgomery Blair student Harini Salgado is a semi-finalist in the Intel Talent Search for her "Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence to Study the Effects of Vocal Tract Length Normalization on Dialect Differences in Vowel Speech Samples."

Omer on Sakha Case in NLLT

January 13, 2015 Linguistics

Now out in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Omer Preminger's “Case in Sakha: are two modalities really necessary?", co-authored with Theodore Levin.

Elika Bergelson among Forbes's "young scientists who are changing the world"

January 05, 2015 Linguistics

2008 Baggett alum Elika Bergelson is one of Forbes's "30 Under 30: Young Scientists Who Are Changing The World".

Sayaka at ConSOLE XXIII in Paris, France

January 03, 2015 Linguistics

January 9 at U. Paris Diderot, Sayaka presents "Locality on generalized pied-piping and wh-agreement in Bantu," a talk at the 23rd Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe.

Kenshi Funakoshi, Asst. Prof. at NINJAL Tokyo

December 23, 2014 Linguistics

Kenshi Funakoshi to become Assistant Professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics in Tokyo.

Terps at Tel Aviv University

December 17, 2014 Linguistics

TAU hosts a workshop with UMD, first in a series to promote research collaborations and student exchanges between the two universities.

Naho Orita to Tohoku University!

December 10, 2014 Linguistics

Naho Orita has accepted a position in the Communication Science Laboratory at Tohoku University, in Sendai, Japan.

Dave Kush awarded 3-year NRSA fellowship

December 08, 2014 Linguistics

2013 alumnus Dave Kush has been awarded 3 years of support from the NIH, through its highly competitive NRSA fellowship.

Carolina in Lisbon at 28th Going Romance

November 28, 2014 Linguistics

Carolina Petersen presents "Non-local dependencies in syntax: raising, control and cliticization," with Mihaela Marchis Moreno at Going Romance.