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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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Paul Pietroski in Paris

May 16, 2013 Linguistics

Paul Pietroski will be in Paris for a month-long appointment at the École Normale Supérieure, teaching a seminar entitled "Meanings First" at the Institut Jean Nicod.

Dave Kush to Haskins Lab at Yale

May 15, 2013 Linguistics

Dave Kush begins a post-doc at Yale's Haskins Lab with Julie Van Dyke.

2013-2014 Research And Scholarship Summer Award Recipients

May 13, 2013 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, English, History, Linguistics, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

ARHU faculty members win prestigious Research and Scholarship Summer Award.

Tom Grano at CUNY

May 11, 2013 Linguistics

Tom Grano presents "Verb meaning, restructuring, and the grammar of complement control" at the CUNY Syntax Supper.

Wing Yee Chow to BCBL

May 10, 2013 Linguistics

Wing-Yee Chow begins a post-doc at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language.

2013-2014 Graduate Student And Faculty Fellowships, Scholarships And Awards

May 09, 2013 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Second Language Acquisition, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Music, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

ARHU graduate students and faculty members receive fellowships, scholarships and awards.

2013-2014 Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship Recipients

May 09, 2013 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Music, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

ARHU graduate students receive prestigious Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship.

Maryland in Latvia

May 07, 2013 Linguistics

Alexis Wellwood presents work with Rachel Dudley, Chris Vogel and Brendan Ritchie, at the 9th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication: Perception and Concepts, in Latvia.

Colin and students in university video

May 06, 2013 Linguistics

In the sixth installment of the WORLDWISE Arts & Humanities Insights Videos, Colin Phillips provides insights on how we seem to understand language so effortlessly even though it is not effortless at all.

Naomi Feldman at Johns Hopkins

May 02, 2013 Linguistics

Naomi Feldman presents 'A probabilistic model of categorical effects in speech perception' at the Johns Hopkins Cognitive Science Colloquium.