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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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NSF funds Philip for models of social decision

August 11, 2020 Linguistics

Support for project to use metadata and language as statistical predictors of when two individuals will make the same choice and why.

Rodrigo on Xinka

August 11, 2020 Linguistics

Rodrigo discusses Xinka languages and their preservation.

Tyler wins Lasnik Teaching Award

August 11, 2020 Linguistics

Our 2020 award for excellence in TA'ing.

New jobs for alums

August 11, 2020 Linguistics

This year has been good for our alumni, with several new appointments and promotions.

Jeff edits Gleitman collection

August 10, 2020 Linguistics

The most important papers of Lila Gleitman's brilliant career, spanning over 50 years of work.

Masha at first 'Heritage Language Syntax'

August 09, 2020 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky kicks off the first workshop of the Microcontact project, "Heritage Language Syntax", with "Not everything is lost: Differential restructuring in heritage language compared to the baseline."

Omer virtually in St Petersburg

August 08, 2020 Linguistics

What is a mental lexicon, asks Omer in a course at the NYI Summer School

Congratulations Class of 2020!

May 18, 2020 Classics, Linguistics, Art

Congratulations Class of 2020!

Laurel wins Glushko Prize

April 15, 2020 Linguistics

Laurel Perkins *19 is the first Terp to win the Glushko Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertations in cognitive science from the Cognitive Science Society.

Laurel Perkins to UCLA

April 13, 2020 Linguistics

Laurel Perkins *19 is to be Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UCLA, in computational linguistics and language acquisition.