Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar
Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.
The 11th Heritage Language Research Institute takes place at the University of New Mexico, organized by Maria Polinsky, its Director, with talks and workshops on a wide variety of Heritage Languages.
Sigwan Thivierge talks about "Phase Unlocking in Georgian" at the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, at the University of British Columbia.
Omer Preminger gives three talks in Tromsø at the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics at the Arctic University of Norway.
For "Whistling on Tiptoes: Investigating Rare Lexical Categories in Tz’utujil (Mayan)," The Jacobs Research Funds has awarded a grant to Omer Preminger, Paulina Lyskawa, Rodrigo Ranero and former Baggett Fellow Chris Baron.
Ellen Lau has been promoted to Associate Professor, and Valentine Hacquard, to Full.
This summer Hanna Muller and Jackie Nelligan have internships at Amazon and Google.
Maria Polinsky discusses "Some Puzzles in Agreement and Concord," at "MultiGender: A multilingual approach to grammatical gender," research project led by Marit Westergaard and UMD alum Terje Lohndal.
May 20 at the UC San Diego linguistics colloquium, Ellen Lau talks about "Neural measures of structured linguistic representations." Here's the abstract of Ellen's talk. After many years of research, we still know relatively little about how lingu
The Chicago Linguistic Society meets has a poster by Suyoung Bae with Hyosik Kim from Northwestern, "The Structural Ambiguity of Long Form Negation in Korean (Polarity Particle Answers to Negative Questions)."
Ellen Lau is awarded a seed grant from UMD's Brain and Behavior Initative to study the "Neural representations of continuous speech and linguistic context in native and non-native listeners."