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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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Maryland in Georgian news

September 16, 2018 Linguistics

Georgian press report on the 2nd South Caucasian Chalk Circle conference, co-organized by Maria Polinsky and supported in part by the Maryland Language Science Center.

Ellen on Long Island at Stony Brook

September 08, 2018 Linguistics

Ellen presents "The search for neural indices of syntactic structure" at Stony Brook's Linguistics colloquium.

Thomas Schatz in Philly at CCN

September 04, 2018 Linguistics

Thomas Schatz is at the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience in Philadelphia, with a poster on joint work with Naomi Feldman: "Neural network vs. HMM speech recognition systems as models of human cross-linguistic phonetic perception."

Allyson starts research position in Chicago

August 31, 2018 Linguistics

Allyson Ettinger is now Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute, "a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute, dedicated to basic research and graduate education in computer science."

Dan in Barcelona for Sinn und Bedeutung

August 30, 2018 Linguistics

Daniel Goodhue discusses "High negation questions and epistemic bias" at the 23rd annual Sinn und Bedeutung conference, held this year at the the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Masha, Annemarie and Sigwan in Tblisi teaching syntax and semantics

August 29, 2018 Linguistics

The South Caucasian Chalk Circle hosts its second annual Summer School in linguistics, at Ilia State University in Tblisi, codirected by Maria Polinsky and Léa Nash.

Welcome to Thomas Schatz

August 28, 2018 Linguistics

Say Hello to Thomas Schatz, our second new postdoc.

Welcome Class of 2023!

August 26, 2018 Linguistics

A warm greeting to Cassidy Henry from UCLA, Masato Nakamura from the University of Tokyo, and Craig Thorburn from MIT, our newest class of PhD students, now a mere half decade from alumni status!

Remembering Akira

August 23, 2018 Linguistics

We mourn the loss of alumnus Akira Omaki *10, who passed away on August 6th 2018, following complications from lymphoma.

Dongwoo to Korea National Open University

August 20, 2018 Linguistics

2017 alum Dongwoo Park is now Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Korea National Open University.