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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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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

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.

Alexander at Penn

March 26, 2012 Linguistics

Alexander Williams is giving a colloquium talk in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania.

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.