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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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VL2 workshop on EEG and MEG by Wing Yee Chow and Sol Lago

September 19, 2011 Linguistics

Wing Yee Chow and Sol Lago taught a two-hour workshop on EEG and MEG in the NSF-funded Visual Language and Learning (VL2) Science of Learning Center hosted at Gallaudet University.

Recent publications by Howard Lasnik

September 19, 2011 Linguistics

Several new papers from Howard Lasnik.

Maryland Neuroimaging Center opens

September 13, 2011 Linguistics

Official opening ceremonies for the Maryland Neuroimaging Center.

Colin Phillips invited to give LAGB Lecture

September 08, 2011 Linguistics

Colin Phillips is giving the "Linguistics Association" Lecture at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain annual meeting in Manchester.

Welcome to Kristine Yu, new postdoc

September 06, 2011 Linguistics

Please greet new postdoc Kristine Yu. Kristine works on computational modeling of tone, prosody, and their acquisition.

Jeff Lidz new Editor-in-Chief of Language Acquisition, Csilla Katjar new Managing Editor

September 05, 2011 Linguistics

Beginning in 2012, Jeff will be the Editor-in-Chief of Language Acquisition.

2011-2012 New Faculty Appointments

September 02, 2011 American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, English, History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Arabic, Persian, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

College of Arts & Humanities welcomes new cohort of 13 faculty to campus. Updated: Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Carolina Petersen and Kenshi Funakoshi to present at GLOW

August 31, 2011 Linguistics

Carolina Petersen and Kenshi Funakoshi present their work at GLOW in Asia, in Mie, Japan.

Terje Lohndal teaching course at Oslo

August 30, 2011 Linguistics

Terje Lohndal will be teaching a PhD course at the University of Oslo, 'Language as Cognitive Science'.

Shevaun Lewis presenting at AMLaP

August 29, 2011 Linguistics

Shevaun Lewis is presenting her work in Paris at AMLaP, discussing results from an eye-tracking study on the processing of scalar implicatures.