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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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Lawrence Chen in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

January 09, 2014 Linguistics

Research on perfect pitch involving Baggett alumnus Lawrence Chen was recently published in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.

Maryland talks at LSA in Minneapolis

December 20, 2013 Linguistics

Work by Alexis, Angela, Chris H., Chris L., Dan and Dustin, with support from Jeff, Colin, Bill and Alexander, will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Minneapolis.

Valentine Hacquard in Amsterdam

December 09, 2013 Linguistics

Valentine gives an invited talk at the 19th Amsterdam Colloquium, within a workshop titled: "More on Modals: New Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives."

Hornstein and Sprouse on shelves now

December 03, 2013 Linguistics

"Experimental Syntax and Island Effects," co-edited by Norbert Hornstein and Jon Sprouse *07 is now published.

Lukyanenko, Conroy and Lidz now published

November 23, 2013 Linguistics

BA alum Cynthia Lukyanenko has published her honors thesis work with Stacey Conroy and Jeff Lidz in "Language Learning and Development".

Paul Pietroski talking at Delaware

November 21, 2013 Linguistics

Paul Pietroski presents "Semantic Typology for Human I-Languages" at the University of Delaware Linguistics Colloquium.

New from Akira, Imogen, Takuya, Jeff and Colin

November 17, 2013 Linguistics

Just out in "Language Learning and Development", "No Fear of Commitment: Children's Incremental Interpretation in English and Japanese Wh-Questions" by Akira Omaki, Imogen Davidson-White, Takuya Goro, Jeff Lidz and Colin Phillips.

Masaya and Brad in new Linguistic Inquiry

November 05, 2013 Linguistics

In the new Linguistic Inquiry, three articles by Terps.

Ellen at Neurobiology of Language Conference