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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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Tadeu Alvares de Azevedo Lau!

July 18, 2014 Linguistics

Happy Birthday to Ellen Lau's healthy and beautiful boy Tadeu, born July 15th.

Mike Fetters talking at Nanzan

July 14, 2014 Linguistics

Michael Fetters and Koji Sugisaki present "On the Nature of Null Objects in Japanese: Preliminary Report of Psycholinguistic Experiments with Adults and Children" at the Nanzan University Center for Linguistics.

Work by eleven terps at IASCL in Amsterdam

July 05, 2014 Linguistics

The IASCL features work by Aaron, Alexis, Angela, Kate, Naho, Rachel, Shevaun, as well as Valentine, Jeff, Alexander, and Meredith Rowe including (at least) five papers, a poster and three workshops.

Jeff on kids' attitudes in Paris

June 26, 2014 Linguistics

Jeff Lidz delivers "Children's Attitude Problems" at the École Normale Superieure, reporting joint work with Valentine Hacquard and the Attitudes Group.

Chris Heffner awarded trip to New Zealand

June 24, 2014 Linguistics

Chris Heffner presents "A more slowly ticking clock isn’t less useful" at the Universitas 21 Graduate Research Conference: "Celebrating Ageing Research" in Aukland.

Jeff gives "Interface Transparency" in Catalonia

June 22, 2014 Linguistics

Jeff Lidz discusses "Interface Transparency" at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Chris Heffner in Psychological Science

June 20, 2014 Linguistics

Chris Heffner is among the authors of an article now out in Psychological Science: "Long-Term Temporal Tracking of Speech Rate Affects Spoken-Word Recognition."

Paul on "Most" in Burnaby, British Columbia