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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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Kate in Frontiers on desire reports

February 19, 2018 Linguistics

"Three-Year-Olds' Understanding of Desire Reports Is Robust to Conflict," concludes Kaitlyn Harrigan in a paper with Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz now out in Frontiers in Psychology.

Terje named Young Outstanding Researcher

February 17, 2018 Linguistics

The Research Council of Norway names 2012 alum Terje Lohndal one of three Young Outstanding Researchers for 2018, in the category of Humanities and Social Science.

Valentine in Germany, on methods in semantics

February 08, 2018 Linguistics

In Tübingen, Valentine Hacquard presents "Learning what ‘must’ and ‘can’ must and can mean," an invited talk at Linguistic Evidence.

Colin, Lara and Masha at AAAS in Texas

February 08, 2018 Linguistics

Colin Phillips and Lara Ehrenhofer are doing Family Science Days at the annual meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

Greetings, spring visitors

February 01, 2018 Linguistics

Say hello to three new visitors, Alice Jesus, Meg Cychosz and Xiao Qimin.

Rodrigo awarded grant for summer research

January 30, 2018 Linguistics

DC's Cosmos Club will support "Documenting Santiago Tz'utujiil," a project Rodrigo Ranero will undertake this summer, traveling to Patzún and Santiago Atitlán to work with consultants in analyzing the morphosyntax of their variety of Tz'utujiil.

Colin at Harvard for colloquium

January 29, 2018 Linguistics

Colin Phillips is at Harvard giving their colloquium talk.

Maryland in Annual Review of Linguistics

January 27, 2018 Linguistics

Now in the Annual Review, papers from Norbert, Colin with 2016 alum Shota Momma, plus 2009 alum Phil Monahan.

Wing-Yee's paper published

January 25, 2018 Linguistics

"Wait a Second!," by alum Wing-Yee Chow, is now in Language, Cognition & Neuroscience, with co-authors Ellen Lau, Suiping Wang and Colin Phillips.

Happy Birthday Heitor Mendes!