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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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Lilli Righter at William & Mary

April 15, 2019 Linguistics

Undergraduate Lillianna Righter is at VALING, the Virginia Area Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium, explaining "Infants' use of the verb-event link to learn verb meaning," based on work done with Jeffrey Lidz.

Zach Wellstood awarded NSF GRFP

April 11, 2019 Linguistics

RA Zachary Wellstood earns support from the NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program, to carry out "the first formal study of the syntax and semantics of juncture morphemes in any Central Khoisan language."

QS ranks UMD Linguistics #3 worldwide

April 11, 2019 Linguistics

The 2019 QS World University Rankings have Maryland at #3 worldwide for Linguistics degrees, "an "eye-catching climb" up the table for [Maryland], which has risen 10 places from 13th to third," say the rankers.

GLEEFUL talk by Jeff

April 10, 2019 Linguistics

Jeff Lidz keynotes the Great Lakes Expo for Experimental and Formal Undergraduate Linguistics, asking “Are meanings in the head? Lessons from the language-vision interface."

Adam keynoting UG conference at MSU

April 09, 2019 Linguistics

MSU alum Adam Liter gives the keynote talk at the Michigan State Undergraduate Linguistics Conference, “Why do you think why kids produce medial wh-phrases: Grammar or performance?"

Guess who? And why!

April 09, 2019 Linguistics

Celebrating 50 years since "Guess Who?," U. Chicago has plenary speakers Howard Lasnik and Haj Ross himself at Sluicing and Ellipsis at 50.

Howard and Kenshi in Handbook of Ellipsis

April 06, 2019 Linguistics

Read about Ellipsis in Transformational Grammar, in a chapter by Howard Lasnik and 2014 alum and Assistant Professor at Dokkyo University, Kenshi Funakoshi, within the new Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis.

Annemarie, Anouk, Mina & Sigwan at MACSIM

April 04, 2019 Linguistics

The 8th MACSIM, at NYU, has a talk by Annemarie van Dooren and posters by Anouk Dieuleveut, Mina Hirzel and Sigwan Thivierge.

What's in Storrs for Valentine

April 03, 2019 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard explains "What to learn in learning attitude and modal meanings" at the UConn Linguistics Department colloquium.

Anouk on implicatures in JML

March 27, 2019 Linguistics

Now in the Journal of Memory and Language, Anouk Dieuleveut makes Distinctions between primary and secondary implicatures, in a paper co-authored with Emmanuel Chemla and Benjamin Spector.