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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 02, 2023 Linguistics

New work from Ellen and her students

On predication, relative clauses, wordhood, and word recognition.

February 18, 2022 Linguistics

Colin to head Section Z of the AAAS

Flying the flag for language in the science ecosystem.

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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Sprouse, Wagers and Phillips in "Language"

March 26, 2012 Linguistics

In the March issue of "Language", "A test of the relation between working memory capacity and syntactic island effects" by alumni Jon Sprouse and Matt Wagers with Colin Phillips.

Grad symposium in Philosophy and Linguistics

March 26, 2012 Linguistics

The first annual PHLINC brings together young researchers working on events in philosophy, linguistics and psychology, with eight talks by grad students and two faculty keynotes.

Talks at GLOW in Potsdam

March 24, 2012 Linguistics

Wing Yee Chow, Ewan Dunbar, Dave Kush, Sol Lago, Shevaun Lewis, Terje Lohndal, Dan Parker, and Megan Sutton are presenting at the 35th annual Colloquium of Generative Linguistics in the Old World.

Philip giving plenary address at AAAL

March 19, 2012 Linguistics

Philip Resnik is a plenary speaker at this year's American Association for Applied Linguistics conference (AAAL 2012) in Boston.

Masa and Kenshi at PLC 36

March 17, 2012 Linguistics

Masahiko Takahashi and Kenshi Funakoshi present "On PP left-branch extraction in Japanese" at the 36th Penn Linguistics Colloquium.

Colin on "Linguistic Illusions" at Georgetown

March 16, 2012 Linguistics

At the "Workshop on Perception: Reality and Illusions," hosted by Georgetown's Program in Cognitive Science, Colin Phillips presents "Linguistic Illusions: Where You See Them, Where You Don't".

Valentine talking at UBC

March 09, 2012 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard is giving talks at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on modality and the acquisition of attitude verbs.

Maryland linguists at CUNY

March 06, 2012 Linguistics

Brad, Colin, Dan, Dave, Jeff, Shevaun, Sol and Wing Yee represent UMD at the 25th annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

Dustin Chacón at CNRS, Paris

March 05, 2012 Linguistics

Dustin Chacón presents work with Alexis Wellwood at the Workshop for Languages with and without Articles, at CNRS / Paris 8, in a talk titled "A Superlative Puzzle for Bošković's DP/NP Parameter."

Maryland linguists at GURT

March 02, 2012 Linguistics

Annie Gagliardi, Megan Sutton, Kate Harrigan, Tara Mease and Jeff Lidz present "Now you see it, now you don't: Advantages and pitfalls of in-depth analysis of preferential looking data" at the 2012 Georgetown University Round Table.