Department news

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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Welcome to new visitors

September 12, 2013 Linguistics

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

Tom Grano on the Dalmatian Coast

September 10, 2013 Linguistics

Tom Grano is at the University of Split in Croatia, to talk about "Restructuring at the syntax-semantics interface."

Paul Pietroski at Princeton

September 06, 2013 Linguistics

Paul shares keynote speaker honors with Barbara Partee at "Semantics: Mathematics or Psychology?" at Princeton University.

Tom and Aaron at SuB in Basque Country

September 04, 2013 Linguistics

Tom and Aaron present their poster "An experimental investigation of partial control" at Sinn und Bedeutung 18 in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Welcome new graduate students!

August 30, 2013 Linguistics

We are delighted to welcome six new members to our PhD program: Lara Ehrenhofer (Oxford), Allyson Ettinger (Brandeis), Jeff Green (Utah), Anton Malko (St. Petersburg), Chris Neufeld (Toronto), and Zach Stone (NYU).

Welcome to new Baggetts and RAs

August 26, 2013 Linguistics

A warm welcome two new Baggett Scholars, Aleksandra Fazlipour (Rochester) and Natalia Lapinskaya (Toronto), as well as Ilia Kurenkov (UMass Amherst), Anna Bonnet (Maryland) and Caitlin Richter (Edinburgh), who will be RAs for Colin, Ellen and Naomi.

Chris LaTerza in Tokyo

August 15, 2013 Linguistics

Chris presents "Plural De Se Reports" at the Conference on Attitudinal Semantics at Keio University,

Lawrence Chen in Child Development

August 10, 2013 Linguistics

To appear in "Child Development", "Referential labeling can facilitate phonetic learning in infancy," by Henny Yeung, Lawrence Chen, and Janet Werker.

Naomi Feldman awarded NSF grant

July 30, 2013 Linguistics

Naomi Feldman awarded 2-year grant from the NSF on "Integrating low-level speech features into a model of speech perception".

Naho Orita in Berlin at CogSci 2013

July 20, 2013 Linguistics

Naho Orita presents "Discovering pronoun categories using discourse information" at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.