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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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Kasia flips CogSci to double blind review

November 13, 2018 Linguistics

Kasia Hitczenko has convinced the Cognitive Science Society to shift from single-blind to double-blind review, through a well-argued letter to its president, emerging from our Bias in Linguistics group.

Three Graduate Students Receive Maryland Language Science Center's 2018 Student Leadership and Service Award

November 02, 2018 Linguistics, Maryland Language Science Center

 At this year’s Language Science Day on October 5, 2018, two graduate students and one recent graduate were the first recipients of the Language Science Center 2018 Student Leadership and Service Award, in recognition of their exceptional contributio

Sigwan on Georgian agreement in Berlin

November 01, 2018 Linguistics

The Multiple Agreement across Domains workshop at ZAS has Sigwan Thivierge asking "When is Agreement Agreement?" and giving "The view from Georgian."

Terps back in Boston for BUCLD

October 29, 2018 Linguistics

Maryland returns to BUCLD with talks and posters on work by Zoe Ovans, Tyler, Laurel, Kasia, Anouk and Annemarie; postdoc Thomas Schatz; and several faculty, alumni, and past visitors.

Colin in Taiwan

October 16, 2018 Linguistics

Colin Phillips delivers a keynote lecture on "Linking Speaking and Understanding" at the 17th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages in Taipei.

Allyson accepts professorship at Chicago

October 12, 2018 Linguistics

2018 alum Allyson Ettinger joins the University of Chicago as Assistant Professor of Linguistics.

Collection of essays in tribute to Juan

October 08, 2018 Linguistics

Now out, Language, Syntax and the Natural Sciences, essays for Juan Uriagereka, edited by Ángel Gallego and Roger Martin.

Ellen on "pizza flower" in Norway

October 07, 2018 Linguistics

Ellen Lau presents "Neural measures of structure representation: The role of lists," at a symposium aimed Towards Mechanistic Models for Meaning Composition.

Masha in L.A. on Tongan right periphery

October 04, 2018 Linguistics

The USC Linguistics colloquium has Maria Polinsky with "On the right periphery," focusing on her analysis of VOS order in Tongan.
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UMD Part of Multi-Institutional Team Awarded $14.4M to Develop Innovative Language Technologies

October 03, 2018 Linguistics

The University of Maryland (UMD) is part of multi-institutional team tasked with building a powerful set of language technologies that can unlock information that has previously been unsearchable, and ultimately unfindable.