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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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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.

NSF grant to Valentine Hacquard and Jeff Lidz

August 24, 2011 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard and Jeff Lidz have been awarded a 3-year research grant from the National Science Foundation on "Acquiring the semantics and pragmatics of attitude verbs."

Welcome to our new graduate students

August 22, 2011 Linguistics

We are happy to welcome six new members to our graduate program: Juliana Gerard (UCLA), Yuki Ito (University of Tokyo), Jeffrey McMahan (U Michigan), Shota Momma (U Washington), Carolina Petersen (Universidade de São Paulo), and Alayo Tripp (Maryland and

Welcome to our new RA and Baggett Fellows

August 21, 2011 Linguistics

We are happy to welcome two new Baggett Fellows, Rachel Dudley (NYU '11, Linguistics) and Erin Bennett (UCSD '11, Linguistics), as well as Cybelle Smith (Stanford '11, Linguistics), a new Research Assistant to Colin Phillips in the psycholinguistics lab.

Welcome to Masahiko Takahashi

August 21, 2011 Linguistics

A warm welcome to Masahiko Takahashi, our new postdoctoral fellow in syntax. Masa recently graduated from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, with a dissertation focusing on Case in Japanese.

Ariane Rhone to University of Iowa

August 20, 2011 Linguistics

Ariane Rhone starts a postdoctoral position at the University of Iowa, split between the Department of Psychology and the Medical School.

Shayne Sloggett to UMass Linguistics

August 16, 2011 Linguistics

Shayne Sloggett is beginning the PhD program in linguistics at UMass Amherst, after one year as a Research Assistant to Colin Phillips in the pycholinguistics lab.

Brad Larson squib to appear in Linguistic Inquiry

July 26, 2011 Linguistics

Brad Larson's "A Dilemma with Accounts of Right Node Raising" is to appear in <i>Linguistic Inquiry</i>.

Jeffrey Heinz and Bill Idsardi in Science