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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Greet the 29'ers!

August 25, 2024 Linguistics

Carmen, Matthew, Tessa and Will join the Terrapin family.

Naomi promoted!

August 22, 2024 Linguistics

Full Professor Feldman.

Tyler's paper among top ten philosophy papers of 2023

August 22, 2024 Linguistics

Psychological evidence for restricted quantification.

Welcome new Baggetts

August 16, 2024 Linguistics

Say hello to Jackson Confer and Imani Finkley!

Third Man paper published

July 19, 2024 Linguistics

Perkins, Knowlton, Williams and Lidz in Language Learning and Development

Maryland in Rotterdam for CogSci

July 14, 2024 Linguistics

On perceiving speech and events.

NSF grant to Laurel and Jeff

July 14, 2024 Linguistics

Non-local syntactic dependency acquisition in infancy.

Alex to UMass

July 13, 2024 Linguistics

Postdoc with Shota Momma.

Clara on language contact and expressives in Italian

July 10, 2024 Linguistics

Borrowing the f-word in toto.

Maryland Today

A Good ‘Word’ for Public Engagement in Science