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The Art and Humanity of AI

From classrooms to research labs, the College of Arts and Humanities is shaping how we understand artificial intelligence and guiding its responsible future.

Mayfest 2025

Constraints on meaning.

October 26, 2024

Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar

Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.

Fall 2024 Leadership Appointments

Dean Stephanie Shonekan announces new leadership appointments.

New Chair

Jeff Lidz takes the helm.

Premvanti Patel featured in Washington Post

Linguistics major highlighted in relation to computer science and humanities.

February 16, 2023

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

NSF support for Hanna and Yu'an

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

November 15, 2021

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

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.

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Polina at Moscow conference on minority languages

Syntactic size is what explains the Moksha 'declensions'.

Jeff at Brazilian Linguistics Association

Inside the Language Acquisition Device.

Naomi named Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year

Recognized for exceptional contributions to graduate students.

Dan on rising declaratives in LSA Proceedings

Two uses and one meaning for rising declaratives.

Paulina to postdoc in Tromsø

Joining a project on "Experimental approaches to syntactic optionality".

Jeff Lidz and Laurel Perkins chair symposium at Society for Research in Child Development

Infant syntax above the word level.

Sigwan and Omer at Arizona WCCFL

On the syntactic identity of roots, and the domain of special meanings.

Ellen speaking at 50th anniversary of MPI Psycholinguistics

On the neurobiology of semantics and its relation to syntax.

Jeff in Cognition on Principle C

Success in Principle C is predicted by vocabulary.

Dan Goodhue at Rutgers colloquium

He's giving a unified analysis of assertive and inquisitive rising declaratives?