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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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Maryland at CUNY in South Carolina

March 21, 2013 Linguistics

Bradley Larson, Dan Parker, Dave Kush, Dustin Chacón, Glynis MacMillan, Sol Lago, Shota Momma, Wing Yee Chow, Colin Phillips, and Jeffrey Lidz represent UMD Linguistics at the 26th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing in Ohio.

Brad Larson at Penn Linguistics Colloquium

March 21, 2013 Linguistics

Brad presents "Unelided basic remnants in Germanic ellipsis or: ÜBRIGE Arguments," at the 37th Penn Linguistics Colloquium at the University of the Pennsylvania.

Yakov Kronrod wins AAAS award

March 20, 2013 Linguistics

Yakov Kronrod was awarded the Honorable Mention at the 2013 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting Student Poster Competition in the Brain and Behavior category.

Shannon Barrios to University of Utah

March 14, 2013 Linguistics

Shannon Barrios is to be Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Maryland intern wins blue ribbon at school science fair

March 05, 2013 Linguistics

Susan Ojo, a senior at Eleanor Roosevelt High School who has been interning in our acquisition lab, has won first prize in the behavioral sciences category at her school's science fair.

Brad Larson in Potsdam

March 01, 2013 Linguistics

Brad Larson presents "The Inherent Syntactic Incompleteness of RNR" at the Parenthesis and Ellipsis workshop at the 35th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society in Potsdam, Germany.

Valentine Hacquard at Harvard

February 24, 2013 Linguistics

Valentine presents "Attitude problems" for Harvard's Linguistics Circle Workshop.
Future of Information Alliance

Arhu Students And Faculty Awarded Fia-Deutsch Seed Grants

February 22, 2013 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, Digital Cultures & Creativity, Linguistics

Out of 22 FIA grantees, 11 ARHU students and faculty win FIA-Deutsch Seed Grant Competition.

Larson and Hornstein in Linguistic Inquiry

February 16, 2013 Linguistics

Bradley Larson's squib with Norbert Hornstein, "A note on P-stranding and adjunct extraction from nominals," is to appear in "Linguistic Inquiry".

Chow and Phillips in Brain Research

February 14, 2013 Linguistics

Wing Yee Chow's recent paper with Colin Phillips is to appear in "Brain Research": "No semantic illusions in the 'Semantic P600' phenomenon: ERP evidence from Mandarin Chinese."