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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Maryland Today

Museum of language and literacy opens in DC

October 28, 2020 Linguistics

UMD faculty help shape, to collaborate with new D.C. nonprofit focused on impact of language.

Luisa in Journal of Pidgins and Creole Languages

October 08, 2020 Linguistics

Language contact can lead to more transparent relations between form and meaning.

Maryland Today

Locally Run Marathon Becomes Globally Watched Experience

October 07, 2020 Linguistics

Professor’s virtual run brings together community for BBC appearance.

Ellen talking at Northwestern

October 06, 2020 Linguistics

Towards a neural model of working memory representations in language comprehension

Jéssica on tense and modality at Romance semantics conference

September 21, 2020 Linguistics

"John might miss his appointment." What makes this a claim about the future?

Philip on NLP in suicide prevention

September 17, 2020 Linguistics

Using computational language analysis to find information about suicide risk in social media.

Terp semantics at the first Experiments in Linguistic Meaning

September 05, 2020 Linguistics, Philosophy

Experimental semantics from Maryland featured at new conference, with work by Anouk, Tyler, Jad and Dan, plus several faculty and alums

Terrapins zoom up to 45th BUCLD

September 05, 2020 Linguistics

BU conference hears its annual chorus of Terps on the acquisition of syntax, semantics and phonology

Maša on participles, and Masha on missing nouns

August 31, 2020 Linguistics

Two conference talks by Maša Bešlin on the syntax and interpretation of particles, and an invited talk by Masha on Russian NPE

Welcome Class of 2025!

August 27, 2020 Linguistics

Hello Clara, Imane, Jack, Leslie, Luisa, Rosa and Xinchi