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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PBS NewsHour

Interactive Museum Strives to Boost the Love of Words

June 10, 2022 Linguistics, English

The Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C., which aims to bring language to life, recently opened a new exhibit focused on wordplay.

Adam Liter working at Glassdoor

June 04, 2022 Linguistics

Working as a Machine Learning Scientist for employee review website.

Alex Chabot talking in Portugal

June 02, 2022 Linguistics

On allophony and epenthesis in Brazilian Portuguese.

Hanna to Illinois

June 01, 2022 Linguistics

Visiting Assistant Professor position in psycholinguistics at Urbana-Champaign.

Post-docs on the move

May 31, 2022 Linguistics

Postdocs heading to Los Angeles, Toronto and Berlin

Alex Chabot talking virtually in Manchester

May 25, 2022 Linguistics

On the abstractness of phonology.

Anouk, Annemarie and Valentine in Natural Language Semantics

May 20, 2022 Linguistics

How children discern possibility and necessity modals.

Yu'an in Language Acquisition on Mandarin WH

May 16, 2022 Linguistics

3-year-olds acquiring Mandarin know that "what" is ambiguous.

Adam Liter in Language Acquisition

May 11, 2022 Linguistics

Why do children sometimes double WH?

Dan Parker to Ohio, Dustin Chacón to Georgia

April 25, 2022 Linguistics

Alumni recently appointed to new positions.