Department news

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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BU Terponanza

October 28, 2014 Linguistics

BUCLD features talks and posters by fifteen current or former Maryland language scientists.

Omer talking at UMass colloquium

October 24, 2014 Linguistics

Omer Preminger presents "The syntax (and morphology) of non-valuation" at the UMass linguistics colloquium.

Lidz and Kronrod on Outreach

October 23, 2014 Linguistics

Now out in Language and Linguistics Compass, "Expanding our reach and theirs: When Linguists go to High School," by Jeffrey Lidz and Yakov Kronrod.

Angela He wins Student Award from Society for Language Development

October 20, 2014 Linguistics

Angela He is one of two recipients of the annual SLD Student Award, for "a record of achievement, and of sustained interest in interdisciplinary research" on language development.

Congratulations to Elika Bergelson!

October 09, 2014 Linguistics

Baggett alum Elika Bergelson was awarded $1.25M by the National Institute of Health for being named one of the 2014 Early Independence Award recipients.

Dillon, Chow, Wagers, Guo, Liu and Phillips: now out in Frontiers in Psychology

September 24, 2014 Linguistics

Just published, "The structure-sensitivity of memory access: evidence from Mandarin Chinese", by Brian Dillon, Wing Yee Chow, Matt Wagers, and Colin Phillips.

Omer's book on shelves now!

September 17, 2014 Linguistics

Omer Preminger's book, "Agreement and its Failures," are now published.

Naomi Feldman at Phonology 2014

September 16, 2014 Linguistics

Naomi presents a plenary talk for Phonology 2014, "Using Speech Corpora in Phonetic Modeling."

Psycho Linguists again rock Ragnar

September 13, 2014 Linguistics

Hail to 12 Maryland language scientists and alums, plus their crew, who ran the Ragnar Relay in 28hrs 59mins 30secs on 12-13 September 2014.

2014-2015 New Faculty Appointments

September 03, 2014 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes new faculty cohort to UMD.