Department news

Mayfest 2025

Constraints on meaning.

October 26, 2024 Linguistics

Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar

Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.

July 01, 2024 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Fall 2024 Leadership Appointments

Dean Stephanie Shonekan announces new leadership appointments.

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.

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Masha in Potsdam, Germany

June 24, 2018 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky talks about "Heritage Language as a Window on Language Design" to Potsdam's Research Unit on Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations, on which Masha is a Mercator Fellow supported by the German Research Foundation.

Colin in Center for Talented Youth magazine

June 21, 2018 Linguistics

Colin invites readers to "Discover Linguistics" in the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth's Imagine Magazine, in a special issue on language and linguistics.

Colin and Jeff with alums in Cognition

June 21, 2018 Linguistics

Now in Cognition, "Developing incrementality in filler-gap dependency processing," from Emily Atkinson, with Jeffrey Lidz, Colin Phillips, Matt Wagers *08 and Akira Omaki *10.

Hacquard and Lidz in Mind & Language

June 19, 2018 Linguistics

Now out, "Children's attitude problems" from Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz, in the new issue of Mind & Language.

Laurel wins dissertation support from NSF

June 14, 2018 Linguistics

Laurel Perkins has won NSF support for her dissertation project, "Behavioral and Computational Investigation of Transitivity in the Acquisition of Non-Basic Syntax," together with advisors Jeffrey Lidz and Naomi Feldman.

In Groningen with Omer Preminger

June 11, 2018 Linguistics

Omer explains "How to tell a syntactic phenomenon when you see it," at the Groningen Syntax Workshop, brought to you by UG, the second oldest Dutch university.

Masha keynotes on Tongan in Toronto

June 09, 2018 Linguistics

The Workshop on the Syntax of Polynesian Languages has a keynote talk from Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam on Tongan VOS word order.

Most Crew on mass/count in Glossa

June 07, 2018 Linguistics

"Individuals and non-individuals in cognition and semantics" from UBC's Darko Odic with Jeffrey Lidz, emeritus professor Paul Pietroski, alumnus Tim Hunter, and Justin Halberda from Johns Hopkins.

Nick and Chia-Hsuan in BUCLD Proceedings

June 05, 2018 Linguistics

"Learning attitude verb meanings in a morphologically-poor language," by Nick Huang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz, is now out in the Proceedings of BUCLD.

Philip receives Amazon Research Award

June 02, 2018 Linguistics

Philip Resnik's project on "Tackling the AI Mental Health Data Crisis" will be supported by an Amazon Machine Learning Research Award.