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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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Colin Phillips in Hong Kong

May 29, 2014 Linguistics

Colin Phillips is giving 5 talks in the Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Naomi Feldman in San Francisco at the APS

May 21, 2014 Linguistics

Naomi Feldman is an invited speaker at a symposium on Bayesian Methods in Cognition, "Modeling statistical learning in language acquisition."

Matt Wagers tenured at U.C. Santa Cruz

May 18, 2014 Linguistics

2008 alumnus Matt Wagers is now Associate Professor of Linguistics at Santa Cruz, with tenure.

2014-2015 Graduate Student And Faculty Fellowships And Awards

May 15, 2014 American Studies, Art, Art History and Archaeology, Classics, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, French, German Studies, Second Language Acquisition, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

ARHU graduate students and faculty members receive fellowships and awards.

2014-2015 Research And Scholarship Semester Award Recipients

May 15, 2014 Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

ARHU faculty members receive prestigious Research and Scholarship Semester Award.

2014-2015 Flagship Fellowship Recipients

May 15, 2014 Art History and Archaeology, American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, Linguistics

Arhu Graduate Students Receive Prestigious Flagship Fellowship.

2014-2015 Flagship Fellowship Recipients

May 15, 2014 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, Linguistics

ARHU graduate students receive prestigious Flagship Fellowship.

2014-2015 Graduate Student And Faculty Fellowships And Awards

May 15, 2014 Art, American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, Classics, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, French, German Studies, Second Language Acquisition, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

ARHU graduate students and faculty members receive fellowships and awards.

Valentine Hacquard at the Ohio State University

May 12, 2014 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard is an invited speaker at the workshop on Perspective and Modal Semantics, hosted by Linguistics at OSU.