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Linguistics

Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar

Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.
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.

August 09, 2021 Linguistics

New jobs for alumni

New positions and homecomings for several recent graduates.
May 24, 2021 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Linguistics, American Studies

Three ARHU Faculty Members Named Graduate Faculty Mentors of the Year

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.

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Yu'an and Tyler in Proceedings of SALT 30

March 03, 2021 Linguistics, Philosophy

Experimental evidence for restricted quantification, with Conservativity as a consequence.

Marylanders at Penn's virtual CUNY

February 22, 2021 Linguistics

Seven presentations on language acquisition and processing, plus more from alumni.

Jeff Green to Brigham Young

February 15, 2021 Linguistics

Heading back to Utah as Assistant Professor of Linguistics!

Philip profiled in Amazon Science

February 09, 2021 Linguistics

On using machine learning to help identify suicide risk.

Gesoel and Rodrigo in Glossa

February 02, 2021 Linguistics

Cyclic extraction of adjuncts in K'ichean languages shows 'overt traces'.

Thomas and Naomi in PNAS

January 28, 2021 Linguistics

Challenging the received view on early phonetic learning.

Dan on rising declaratives at ZAS workshop

January 25, 2021 Linguistics

A unified account of assertive and inquisitive rising declaratives?

Masha organizes Winter School course on K'iche'

January 25, 2021 Linguistics

First ever online course on a Mayan language.

Paulina and Rodrigo with Ted Levin in German Journal of Linguistics

January 24, 2021 Linguistics

Paper argues that optional agreement in Santiago Tz’utujil is syntactic.

Aaron in NLLT on Control

January 21, 2021 Linguistics

An analysis of "proxy control" in German and Italian, where 'Maria asked Bill to leave" is used to mean that Maria sought permission for people she represents.