Department news

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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ARHU Faculty Earn Promotion And Tenure

July 17, 2013 American Studies, Art, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Congratulations to faculty members in ARHU who have been awarded promotion and/or tenure.

Naomi's paper in Psychological Review‏

July 10, 2013 Linguistics

To appear in "Psychological Review", "A role for the developing lexicon in phonetic category acquisition", by Naomi Feldman, Tom Griffiths, Sharon Goldwater, and James Morgan.

Alexis Wellwood wins ARHU Service Award

June 28, 2013 Linguistics

Alexis Wellwood has been honored with the ARHU Graduate Student Service Award.

Shannon Barrios wins department TA award

June 21, 2013 Linguistics

Shannon Barrios is the first recipient of the "Howard Lasnik Distinguished Linguistics TA Award."

Ellen Lau at Human Brain Mapping Conference

June 16, 2013 Linguistics

Ellen Lau presents at the Human Brain Mapping Conference in Seattle, as part of a workshop on "Current Directions in Neuroimaging of Language and Language-Related Disorders".

Tom Grano at NACCL in Ann Arbor

June 15, 2013 Linguistics

Tom presents "Aspect out of control and the finite/nonfinite distinction in Mandarin" to the 25th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics at the University of Michigan.

Shevaun Lewis to Johns Hopkins

June 10, 2013 Linguistics

Shevaun Lewis will soon begin a postdoc in the Language and Cognition Lab at the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins.

Ewan Dunbar heads to Paris

May 30, 2013 Linguistics

Ewan Dunbar has accepted a post-doc in the Laboratoire de Science Cognitive et Psycholinguistique at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

Alumni appointment bonanza!

May 28, 2013 Linguistics

Appointments, promotions and awards for Phil Monahan *09, Eri Takahashi *09, Jon Sprouse *07, Lisa Pearl *07, Usama Soltan *06 and Matt Wagers *08.

Yuki to publish in Studia Linguistica