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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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MPower Partnership Announces $3M in Seed Grants for Collaborative Research

March 02, 2022 Linguistics

17 joint UMCP-UMB projects target vital topics.

Masha at Illinois Language and Linguistics Society

March 01, 2022 Linguistics

Arguing that all syntax is experimental.

Colin to head Section Z of the AAAS

February 18, 2022 Linguistics

Flying the flag for language in the science ecosystem.

NSF support for Hanna and Yu'an

February 16, 2022 Linguistics

Dissertation improvement grants on comprehension illusions and the acquisition of question marking.

Valentine and Jeff in Handbook of Mental Lexicon

February 15, 2022 Linguistics

On acquiring the modal vocabulary, and using syntax as evidence of meaning.

Nick Huang and the Attitude All Stars in Language Acquisition

February 09, 2022 Linguistics

Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax.

Masha on clitics in Heritage Bulgarian

February 06, 2022 Linguistics

Heritage speakers of Bulgarian reanalyze the patterns of clitic placement.

Alexander in Philosophy Handbook

February 01, 2022 Linguistics

Why think that clauses are descriptions of events?

Dan in Journal of Semantics

January 30, 2022 Linguistics

All focus *is* contrastive.

Laurel, Naomi and Jeff in Cognitive Science

January 28, 2022 Linguistics

How to avoid learning from misleading data without knowing that it's misleading.