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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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Alayo in Frontiers with Naomi and Bill

June 08, 2021 Linguistics

Assessment of knowledgeability and group membership influences infant word learning.

Imane presenting at UCLA Heritage Language Institute, directed by Masha

June 07, 2021 Linguistics

On anti-agreement effects in the production of heritage speakers of Tashelhiyt Berber.

Rodrigo to postdoc at UCLA

June 03, 2021 Linguistics

Two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Los Angeles with Harold Torrence.

Maša at FDSL 14 and IATL 36

June 02, 2021 Linguistics

On participles, pronouns, and functional structure.

Tyler and the Mostet in the Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences

May 29, 2021 Linguistics

"More" and "most" do not encode the same sorts of comparison.

Two talks by Clara Cuonzo

May 27, 2021 Linguistics

On verbal doubling in Abruzzese and expressives in Italian

Paulina Lyskawa invited to speak at FASL 30

May 24, 2021 Linguistics

Argues that resolution of agreement is external to grammar.

Aaron to Amazon in Manhattan

May 24, 2021 Linguistics

Language Engineer for AI Data team at Amazon Web Services.

Three ARHU Faculty Members Named Graduate Faculty Mentors of the Year

May 24, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Linguistics, American Studies

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.

Naho and Hajime in Language Acquisition with Jeff and Naomi

May 22, 2021 Linguistics

On initial errors in the acquisition of the Japanese local- or long-distance anaphor "zibun".