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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Shota, Julia, Colin and Bob Slevc in Cognition

January 24, 2020 Linguistics

Now in Cognition, "Syntactic category constrains lexical competition in speaking" by alum Shota Momma with former RA Julia Buffinton and faculty mentors Colin Phillips and Bob Slevc from Psychology.

Maša at Guatemala Field Station

January 22, 2020 Linguistics

Maša Bešlin returns from two weeks of immersive Kaqchikel at the Guatemala Field Station, after giving a talk at the Novi Sad Linguistic Colloquium "On the categorial status of the passive participle in Serbo-Croatian."

High school intern wins science competition

January 09, 2020 Linguistics

Simon Chervenak, a summer intern with Tyler Knowlton, has been awarded "Best Paper in Behavioral Sciences" by the Washington Academy of Science's Blair Magnet School STEM Fair.

Paulina and Rodrigo in the Big Easy

December 26, 2019 Linguistics

The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas learns about "Narcissistic allomorphy in Santiago Tz'utujil" from Paulina Lyskawa and Rodrigo Ranero, as well as former Baggett, Chris Baron.

Max at LSA

December 23, 2019 Linguistics

Maxime Papillon talks about Harmony and Word-tone in Precedence-Relation-Oriented Phonology, at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.

Adam and Naomi on PCC at SCiL

December 21, 2019 Linguistics

The Society for Computation in Linguistics learns about "Modeling the learning of the Person Case Constraint" from Adam Liter and Naomi Feldman.

Kate, Valentine and Jeff in Language

December 20, 2019 Linguistics

Now in "Language", "Hope for Syntactic Bootstrapping" by Kaitlyn Harrigan *15 with Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz.

Maryland at Amsterdam Colloqium

December 11, 2019 Linguistics

The 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium has two talks from UMD, one by Anouk and Annemarie, with Valentine and NYU's Ailis Cournane, the other by Paolo Santorio from Philosophy, with collaborators.

Jeff at Storrs

December 07, 2019 Linguistics

UConn hears the holiday story of "WH-Movement through the Ages" from Jeffrey Lidz, reporting work by Jeff, Mina Hirzel, Laurel Perkins and others on the development of children's ability to represent wh-dependencies.

Levin and Polinsky on Austronesian morphology

November 29, 2019 Linguistics

"Morphology in Austronesian Languages" from Maria Polinsky with former postdoc Theodore Levin.