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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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Welcome new Baggetts, RAs, and visitors

September 05, 2012 Linguistics

We are happy to welcome two new Baggett Fellows, Lawrence Chen (U. British Columbia) and Josh Falk (Stanford), as well as new RAs Glynis MacMillan (UMass Amherst) and Allison Fogel (Tufts U.), and MEG Lab manager Elizabeth Nguyen (Reed).

Welcome to six new graduate students

September 05, 2012 Linguistics

We are delighted to welcome six new members to our graduate program: Rachel Dudley (NYU), Peter Enns (UMD), Michael Fetters (UMD), Chris Heffner (MSU), Dongwoo Park (Seoul National) and Zoe Schlueter (York, Edinburgh).

Jeff Lidz teaching at ENS in Paris

September 04, 2012 Linguistics

Jeff Lidz teaches a course, "Inside the LAD," at the École d'Automne de Linguistique, sponsored by the Department of Cognitive Studies at the École Normale Superieure, Paris.

Jon Sprouse wins LSA Early Career Award

August 30, 2012 Linguistics

Alumnus Jon Sprouse, *07 has been awarded the 2013 Early Career Award by the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society America.

Alexis at Sinn und Bedeutung

August 27, 2012 Linguistics

Alexis Wellwood presents "Back to basics: *more* is always *much-er*" at the 17th annual Sinn und Bedeutung conference.

Hunter and Lidz in Journal of Semantics

August 20, 2012 Linguistics

Tim Hunter and Jeff Lidz's paper "Conservativity and Learnability of Determiners" has been published in the Journal of Semantics.

Hacquard and Wellwood in Semantics and Pragmatics

August 09, 2012 Linguistics

Featured in the new Semantics and Pragmatics, a paper by Valentine and Alexis: "Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study."

UMD Linguists at Cogsci 2012

July 16, 2012 Linguistics

Work by Annie Gagliardi, Yakov Kronrod, Alexis Wellwood and Cybelle Smith is to be presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Aaron and Alexis at NASSLLI 2012

June 04, 2012 Linguistics

Alexis Wellwood and Aaron White have both received scholarships to NASSLLI, held June 18-22 at UT Austin.

Chris Dyer to join faculty at Carnegie Mellon!

June 01, 2012 Linguistics

Chris Dyer *10 becomes Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Language Technologies Institute at the School of Computer Science, with a cross-appointment in the Machine Learning Department.