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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Levin and Polinsky on Austronesian morphology

November 29, 2019 Linguistics

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

Marisa Fried, Deans Senior Scholar

November 25, 2019 Linguistics

Marisa Fried, Linguistics major, has been named a Dean's Senior Scholar, one of only seven.

Maryland Today

Distinguishing language from animal communication

November 21, 2019 Linguistics

Special issue of journal asks what our babies can do that birds and chimps cannot.

Bill and UMD on animal communication

November 21, 2019 Linguistics

What can animal communication teach us about human language?, asks a special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, edited by Bill Idsardi with Jonathan B. Fritz from NYU and Gerald S. Wilkinson from UMD Biology.

Jeff all SMH NMH on interwebs lingo

November 14, 2019 Linguistics

Listen to Jeffrey Lidz answer the question "How is the internet changing language for kids?" on the In Plain Language podcast.

Howard in Guangzhou (but not Hong Kong)

November 14, 2019 Linguistics

Howard Lasnik gives three talks in Guangzhou, China.

Annemarie, Nick and Gesoel on 'want' in Ohio

November 07, 2019 Linguistics

"Polysemous "want": Language change from a synchronic perspective," by Annemarie van Dooren, Gesoel Mendes and 2019 alum Nick Huang is at Formal Diachronic Semantics 4 in Columbus, Ohio.

Syntax and Dance

November 06, 2019 Linguistics

Linguistics professor Howard Lasnik is also a long-time Scottish country dancer.

Maryland in Boston on babies

October 25, 2019 Linguistics

BUCLD has work by Mina Hirzel, recent alums Alayo Tripp, Kasia Hitczenko, Laurel Perkins, and several collaborating faculty: Valentine Hacquard, Jeffrey Lidz, Alexander Williams, Naomi Feldman, and Bill Idsardi.

Masha headlines Arizona conference

October 24, 2019 Linguistics

The 13th Arizona Linguistics Circle, on the theme of "Research across linguistic subfields," has Maria Polinsky giving a keynote talk.