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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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Masha inducted into Norwegian Academy

March 20, 2020 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky has been elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science.

Paulina in Glossa

March 13, 2020 Linguistics

Paulina Lyskawa is in Glossa, on the curious behavior of DPs with paucal numerals in Polish, such as "pięć czarownic" ‘five witches’.

UMD at CUNY (virtually)

March 12, 2020 Linguistics

The virtualized CUNY 2020 has Hanna, Tyler, Masato, Mina, Chia-Hsuan and Laurel from LING, as well as Zoe from HESP and Rosa from SLA; postdoctoral fellows Shohini and Andrés Buxó-Lugo; plus a host of faculty from several departments.

Chia-Hsuan and Ellen in LC&N

March 04, 2020 Linguistics

Now in print, "Enough time to get results? An ERP investigation of prediction with complex events" by Chia-Hsuan Liao with advisor Ellen Lau, in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

WCCFL 38 in Vancouver

February 28, 2020 Linguistics

Yu'an Yang presents "Do children know "whanything"?" at WCCFL 38, joint work with Daniel Goodhue, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz.

Polina and Jad at ECO-5

February 18, 2020 Linguistics

Polina Pleshak and Jad Wehbe are at ECO-5, with "Small nominals in locative phrases" and "Unifying counterfactual and past tense uses of 'kaan' in Lebanese Arabic."

Phoebe at Cornell

February 08, 2020 Linguistics

Phoebe Gaston gives the colloquium talk at Cornell Linguistics, on “The role of syntactic context in auditory word recognition.'

Ellen on U.K. tour

February 05, 2020 Linguistics

This week in London, York and Bristol, Ellen Lau presents three talks on the neuroscience of syntactic and semantic working memory representations.

Masha in Norway this Spring

February 03, 2020 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky is in Oslo for "MultiGender: A multilingual approach to grammatical gender," a research project led by Marit Westergaard and UMD alum Terje Lohndal.

Say hello to David Lebeaux

January 31, 2020 Linguistics

Welcome faculty affiliate David Lebeaux, who will visit us occasionally, using the Emeritus Office.