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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.

May 24, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Linguistics, American Studies

Three ARHU Faculty Members Named Graduate Faculty Mentors of the Year

Melissa Blanco Borelli of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Naomi Feldman of the Department of Linguistics and Nancy Raquel Mirabal of the Department of American Studies are recognized.

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Ellen Lau to appear in Journal of Neuroscience

October 08, 2013 Linguistics

Ellen's paper "Automatic semantic facilitation in anterior temporal cortex revealed through multimodal neuroimaging" is to appear in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Ragnar rallies linguists in relay!

October 05, 2013 Linguistics

Bravos to 12 Maryland language scientists, friends and alums, plus their support crew, who ran the Ragnar Relay on 4-5 October 200

Sayaka and Dongwoo at Japanese/Korean Linguistics 23

October 03, 2013 Linguistics

At JK23, Sayaka Goto gives a poster titled "Two types of accusative subjects in Japanese" and Dongwoo Park gives a poster titled "Korean ECM construction and Cyclic Linearization."

Valentine in Semantics and Pragmatics

October 02, 2013 Linguistics

Just out in "Semantics and Pragmatics", "Epistemics and Attitudes" by Pranav Anand and Valentine Hacquard.

Umd To Solve Global Language Problems At New Language Science Center

September 27, 2013 Philosophy, College of Arts and Humanities, Linguistics

UMD demonstrates benefit of humanities—science collaboration with launch of Maryland Language Science Center.

Gagliaridi and Lidz to appear in Language

September 22, 2013 Linguistics

"Statistical Insensitivity in the Acquisition of Tsez Noun Classes," by Annie Gagliardi *12 and Jeff Lidz, has been accepted for publication in Language.

Alexander at Kenmoor Middle School

September 18, 2013 Linguistics

Alexander talks about Russell on descriptions with the Philosophy Club at Kenmoor Middle School in Landover Maryland.

Alexis, Valentine honored at Convocation

September 17, 2013 Linguistics

The College of Arts and Humanities honors Alexis Wellwood with the Student Service Award at its Annual Faculty & Staff Convocation.

Paul on concepts in Raleigh

September 15, 2013 Linguistics

Paul Pietroski is an invited speaker at a conference on Concepts hosted by the Logic and Cognitive Science Initiative at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Welcome to new visitors

September 12, 2013 Linguistics

Welcome to two new visitors: Anamaria Bentea and Regine Lai.