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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Maryland Today

19 Seniors Honored as Merrill Presidential Scholars

November 04, 2022 Communication, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Linguistics

Program recognizes stellar students along with teacher, faculty mentors.

Two new publications from Polina

November 02, 2022 Linguistics

On dative case and binominal lexemes in Uralic languages.

Maryland alums respond to stigmatization of vocal fry

November 01, 2022 Linguistics

Riposte by Matt Winn and Alayo Tripp to sexist critique of vocal fry.

Jeff leads Boston trot of Terrapins

October 30, 2022 Linguistics

MD at BU to hear how UG gives us XR vision.

Luisa talking at NYU

October 20, 2022 Linguistics

On the decomposition of A-movement in the Valley of Aosta.

Masha in Paris

October 16, 2022 Linguistics

Keynoting the 3rd Heritage Language Syntax Conference.

Maryland at SNL in Philly

October 04, 2022 Linguistics

On brains and language in Philadelphia.

Masha in Cyprus and Israel

October 03, 2022 Linguistics

On the nature of heritage languages.

Sterling named Merrill Presidential Scholar, Jeff honored as mentor

October 02, 2022 Linguistics

UMD's most successful seniors and their faculty mentors.

Valentine is in Michigan?

September 21, 2022 Linguistics

Yes, but only virtually, talking about how babies acquire clause types and their function.