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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Welcome William Matchin, new postdoc

August 30, 2014 Linguistics

Greet postdoc William Matchin, PhD in Cognitive Science from UC Irvine, who will be doing research with Ellen Lau on the neural basis of basic structure-building operations.

Welcome to our five new graduate students

August 28, 2014 Linguistics

A warm welcome our new class of PhD students: Sigríður Björnsdóttir (Iceland), Kasia Hitczenko (Yale), Nick Huang (Yale), Gesoel Mendes (Paraná, Brazil), and Laurel Perkins.

UMD computational linguists win Google Awards

August 27, 2014 Linguistics

Chris Dyer *10 and Hal Daumé III win Google Faculty Research Awards, in Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing.

Welcome to new Baggetts and RAs

August 26, 2014 Linguistics

Please greet our two new Baggett Fellows, Christopher Hammerly (Minnesota) and Tom Roberts (MIT), as well as Julia Buffinton (Cornell), who is an RA with Colin.

Kenshi Funakoshi at Mie University

August 22, 2014 Linguistics

Kenshi Funakoshi is now Lecturer at Mie University.

Naomi awarded NSF grant with Micha Elsner

August 20, 2014 Linguistics

Naomi Feldman has been awarded an NSF grant for "Cognitive models of the acquisition of vowels in context," with OSU's Micha Elsner.

Hello Professor Preminger!

August 15, 2014 Linguistics

Hello to Omer Preminger, our new Assistant Professor, who starts with us this semester.

Jeff Green awarded trip to Taiwan for China Immersion Program

July 28, 2014 Linguistics

Jeffrey Green is one of three students representing UMD at the National Central University of Taiwan (NCU) annual Immersion Program in Chinese language and culture.

Aaron featured on IGERT webpage