Department news

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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Ellen and Masha in Brain and Language

February 08, 2023 Linguistics

Is processing subject-relative clauses easier even in an ergative language?

Xinchi and Ellen in Cognitive Science

February 07, 2023 Linguistics

On the problem of binding to object indices, beyond perceptual features.

The Diamondback

UMD Faculty, Students Respond to Rise of ChatGPT

February 03, 2023 Linguistics

Professor of Linguistics Philip Resnik featured in The Diamondback.

New work from Ellen and her students

February 02, 2023 Linguistics

On predication, relative clauses, wordhood, and word recognition.

Maša at SSILA

January 14, 2023 Linguistics

Reanalyzing K'iche' as a tensed language.

Polina at NELS

January 13, 2023 Linguistics

Complements to P can be less than DPs.

Zara in Developmental Science with UMD collaborators

January 13, 2023 Linguistics

On the use of uninflected verb forms in children with developmental language disorder.

Terps a mile high at LSA

December 21, 2022 Linguistics

Maša on phases and BCS passives, Polina on small complements to P.

Jeff in Language Acquisition

December 20, 2022 Linguistics

Learning a grammar is sufficient for learning to parse.

Alex Chabot edits journal issue on phonological theory

December 16, 2022 Linguistics

Canadian Journal of Linguistics on "Features and phonetic substance".