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Linguistics

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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Terps roll through Boulder

March 22, 2019 Linguistics

At CUNY in Colorado, it's Terps all the way down.

Sigwan at PLC43 in Philly

March 17, 2019 Linguistics

Sigwan Thivierge argues for Expanding the agreement domain in Georgian at the 43rd Penn Linguistics Colloquium.

Tyler, Mina and Adam in B'more at SRCD

March 15, 2019 Linguistics

The Society for Research in Child Development has posters by Mina Hirzel, Tyler Knowlton and Adam Liter, reporting on joint work with Valentine Hacquard, Jeffrey Lidz, Michigan State's Alan Munn and a number of collaborators.

Sigwan lecturing on Georgian at McGill

March 14, 2019 Linguistics

Sigwan Thivierge talks about "Expanding the agreement domain in Georgian," in a special session of a graduate syntax seminar on 'Hierarchy effects' led by Jessica Coon at McGill.

Masha to NSF: Linguistics matters

March 13, 2019 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky presents "Linguistics Matters" in the Distinguished Lecture Series at the NSF's Directorate of Social, Behavior and Economic Sciences.

Masha on exceptives at Chicago

March 04, 2019 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky limns The Landscape of Exceptives in a colloquium talk at the University of Chicago.

Rodrigo, Paulina and Ted in Bremen for DGfS

February 28, 2019 Linguistics

Those at the Conference of the German Linguistic Society will learn that Optional agreement in Santiago Tz'utujil is syntactic, thanks to a presentation of work by Theodore Levin, Paulina Lyskawa and Rodrigo Ranero.

Ted Levin to Facebook in Seattle

February 23, 2019 Linguistics

Postdoc Ted Levin heads to the beautiful Northwest for a job at Facebook.

Chris Heffner to professorship at Buffalo

February 22, 2019 Linguistics

2017 alum Chris Heffner is to be Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo in Communication Disorders and Sciences, after a one year postdoc with the Acoustical Society of America.

Lago et al. on pronoun resolution and N400s

February 18, 2019 Linguistics

Now in Language Cognition & Neuroscience from 2014 alum Sol Lago, "Antecedent access mechanisms in pronoun processing: Evidence from the N400," joint work with former advisor Ellen Lau, lab manager Anna Namyst, and Potsdam colleague Lena Jäger.