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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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Naomi and Rochelle win ADVANCE grant

April 27, 2012 Linguistics

Naomi Feldman and Rochelle Newman havewon a UMD ADVANCE seed grant for a project titled "Children's real time processing of words and sounds."

Linguists blaze at local footrace

April 21, 2012 Linguistics

Congratulations to Annie, Colin, Jeff, Rachel, Tess, and Yakov, who all ran well in the Azalea Classic in University Park

Wing Yee awarded Ann Wylie Dissertation Fellowship

April 13, 2012 Linguistics

Wing Yee Chow receives an Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, for outstanding doctoral students in the final stages of writing their dissertation.

Brad Larson talk at Northwestern

April 12, 2012 Linguistics

Brad Larson presents "Strange Constituencies: Multidominance and an alternative" at Northwestern University's Syntax-Semantics lab.

Alexis and Brad at CLS 48

April 11, 2012 Linguistics

Brad Larson and Alexis Wellwood will be presenting papers at the 48th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, "Sprouting Anew" and "Meaning more or most"

Maryland at WCCFL 30 in Santa Cruz

April 09, 2012 Linguistics

On April 13-15, Shevaun Lewis presents "The pragmatics of belief reports in development" at WCCFL XXX.

Valentine at NYU

April 04, 2012 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard gives a colloquium talk at New York University Linguistics.

Wing Yee to present at CNS in Chicago

March 27, 2012 Linguistics

Wing Yee Chow presents a poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, "Wait a Second: Eliminating the 'Semantic Illusion' in Role-reversed Sentences."

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