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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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Jeff meditates on memory in acquisition

February 14, 2019 Linguistics

In a special issue of TiCS honoring Lila Gleitman, Jeffrey Lidz offers "A Meditation" on learning, memory and syntactic bootstrapping.

Matchin, Liao, Gaston and Lau on V/N in the AG

February 12, 2019 Linguistics

Now in Neuropsychologia, An fMRI investigation of argument relations and the angular gyrus from Ellen Lau and her former postdoc William Matchin, with Chia-Hsuan Liao and Phoebe Gaston, titled "Same words, different structures."

Bootstrapping into syntax

January 30, 2019 Linguistics

Prosody and function words cue the acquisition of word meanings in 18-month-old infants, demonstrates past visitor Alex de Carvalho in a recent paper for Psych Science with Jeffrey Lidz, alum Angela Xiaoxue He, and Anne Christophe in Paris.

Omer in Glossa on PCC

January 24, 2019 Linguistics

Now in Glossa, Omer Preminger shows us What the PCC tells us about “abstract” agreement, head movement, and locality. And what that is, is that there can be no agreement in ϕ-features which systematically lacks a morpho-phonological footprint.

LSA in Times Square

December 25, 2018 Linguistics

The LSA's Annual Meeting has work by Suyoung, Tyler, and Phoebe, with faculty collaborators, as well as a report on gender bias in our field, by a large group of our students, led by Hanna and Phoebe.

Terps take Manhattan with SCiL

December 19, 2018 Linguistics

The 2nd meeting of the Society for Computation in Linguistics has posters, tutorials and panel discussions led by Maryland students and alums.

Masha in Hong Kong

December 12, 2018 Linguistics

The keynote address at the Symposium on Childhood Bilingualism and Heritage Language Acquisition in Hong Kong is by Maria Polinsky, who will give an overview of Heritage Languages and Heritage Linguistics: Present and Future.

Nick in JEAL on control and restructuring

December 04, 2018 Linguistics

Nick Huang's "Control complements in Mandarin Chinese" is now out in the Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

Masha in Irvine on bilinguals

December 01, 2018 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky argues at UC Irvine's colloquium, that "It's still about grammar: Cascading structural reorganization in bilinguals."

World gets Semantics without Truth Values

November 30, 2018 Linguistics

Now out from Emeritus Professor Paul Pietroski, "Conjoining Meanings: Semantics without Truth Values."