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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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.

Valentine in Leeds, England

November 19, 2014 Linguistics

Valentine discusses "Standard Nonstandard Modality" at a workshop on modality in Leeds, organized by Loiner professor of philosophy, Paolo Santorio.

Naho at University of Colorado

November 13, 2014 Linguistics

Naho Orita gives a talk at the Computational Language and Education Research Colloquium, "Computational modeling of how humans use discourse information."

Philip Resnik on mental health in Newsweek

November 13, 2014 Linguistics

In Technology's Latest Quest: Tracking Mental Health, "Newsweek" reports work by Philip that looks for "signals in language use that help produce insight into people’s mental health status."

Dudley, Orita, Hacquard and Lidz on "know"

November 12, 2014 Linguistics

Now out as Ch.11 in Experimental Perspectives on Presuppositions, "Three-Year-Olds’ Understanding of "Know" and "Think"," by Rachel Dudley, with Naho Orita, Valentine Hacquard and Jeff Lidz.

Paul in Germany on Lake Constance

November 09, 2014 Linguistics

Paul Pietroski is at U. Konstanz, talking to their "Foundations of Semantics" group, and reporting on his work with Jeffrey Lidz, in "Semantic Framing: The Meaning of 'most'."

Alayo and Caitlin at NECPhon8 in NYC

November 07, 2014 Linguistics

The 8th Northeast Computational Phonology Workshop has talks by Alayo Tripp and Caitlin Richter.

Kush and Colin in Frontiers in Psychology

November 05, 2014 Linguistics

Now out in Frontiers, "Local anaphor licensing in an SOV language," by Dave Kush *13 along with Colin Phillips.