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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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Brad Larson to Harvard

May 01, 2013 Linguistics

Brad is to be Lecturer on Linguistics at Harvard for the academic year 2013-14.

Michael Gagnon at SALT23 in Santa Cruz

April 29, 2013 Linguistics

At Semantics and Linguistic Theory 23, Michaël presents "Part and Parcel of Eliding Partitives".

ARHU Insights with Colin Phillips

April 29, 2013 Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center

Research explores the complex yet seemingly effortless way we understand language.

Language scientists blaze in local footrace

April 21, 2013 Linguistics

Congratulations to Alison Shell, Shevaun Lewis, and Colin Phillips who won honors at Saturday's Azalea Classic 5K run!

2013-2014 Beinecke Scholarship Recipient

April 18, 2013 College of Arts and Humanities, Linguistics, Philosophy

ARHU student receives prestigious Beinecke Scholarship.

Yakov Kronrod wins Distinguished Graduate Student Award

April 16, 2013 Linguistics

Yakov Kronrod has been awarded the first annual Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Leadership.

Sophia Sanborn wins national scholarship

April 15, 2013 Linguistics

Undergrad Sophia Sanborn, a double major in linguistics and philosophy, has won the Beinecke Scholarship, one of only 20 awarded nationally each year.

Morgan at CULC

April 14, 2013 Linguistics

Morgan Moyer is headed to the 7th annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium to present "Three-year-olds' understanding of 'know' vs. 'think'," joint work with Rachel, Naho, Valentine and Jeff.

Naho Orita and Rachel Dudley at Northwestern

April 11, 2013 Linguistics

Naho Orita and Rachel Dudley will be giving talks in Masaya Yoshida's lab, Northwestern University.