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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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Adam Liter in Phonology

August 24, 2020 Linguistics

What biases do phonological learners use in the face of data that is ambiguous between generalizations of differing complexity?

Alexis Wellwood tenured at USC

August 13, 2020 Linguistics

Congratulations to Alexis Wellwood *14, now Associate Professor of Philosophy with tenure at USC.

Tyler and Yu'an at SALT in virtual Ithaca

August 12, 2020 Linguistics, Philosophy

Two posters and a talk from semantics at UMD

NSF support for Tyler, Masha and Philip

August 12, 2020 Linguistics

New grants underwrite projects in semantics and psycholinguistics, syntax and typology, computational linguistics and political science.

Research on Central American languages

August 12, 2020 Linguistics

Read about new grants, presentations and classes by Rodrigo, Paulina and Polina.

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.