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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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Terps in Proceedings of NELS 47

November 27, 2017 Linguistics

Check out papers by Yu'an, Annemarie, Jeff Green, Alexander, and former postdoc Ted Levin, in the Proceedings of NELS 47.

Zoe on number retrieval cues in the Journal of Memory and Language

November 20, 2017 Linguistics

Now out from Zoe Schlueter, with Alexander Williams and Ellen Lau, "Exploring the abstractness of number retrieval cues in the computation of subject-verb agreement in comprehension," in the Journal of Memory and Language.

Phoebe, plus Ellen and Chia-Hsuan, in Language, Cognition & Neuroscience

November 16, 2017 Linguistics

Two new articles, one from Ellen Lau and Chia-Hsuan Liao, the other from Phoebe Gaston with NYU's Alec Marantz, in Language, Cognition & Neuroscience.

2017-18 Scholarship Recipients

November 16, 2017 Art, Art History and Archaeology, Classics, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Chinese, German Studies, Persian, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

ARHU is pleased to announce the 2017-18 Senior Scholars, Scholarship Recipients and Freshmen Scholars.

Hacquard at Harvard on acquiring modals

November 13, 2017 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard is at the Harvard Linguistics colloquium, presenting her work on "Acquiring the Language of Modality" with Anouk Dieuleveut and Annemarie van Dooren, as well as Co-PI Ailis Cournane from NYU.

Society for Neurobiology of Language in Baltimore

November 10, 2017 Linguistics

SNL has work by Mina Hirzel, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Phoebe Gaston, with Ellen Lau, Jeffrey Lidz, former postdoc William Matchin and former RA Natalia Lapinskaya.

Terps on clausal complements in Berlin

November 09, 2017 Linguistics

Berlin's SelectionFest 2017 has an invited talk by 2015 alum Aaron White, and a talk by Nick Huang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz.

Andrea recognized as Community Champion

November 02, 2017 Linguistics

Andrea Zukowski's leadership of College Park Parkrun has led our Office of Community Engagement to select her as 2017 Community Champion, one of their "Making a Difference Awards."

Penguin project earns Best Paper at LL&D

October 31, 2017 Linguistics

Angela He wins the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award from the editors of Language Learning and Development for "Verb learning in 14- and 18-month-old English-learning Infants."

Autumnal migration of Terrapins to Boston

October 27, 2017 Linguistics

BUCLD 42 has work by Nick Huang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Laurel Perkins and Mina Hirzel, alongside Valentine Hacquard, Alexander Williams, Jeffrey Lidz and Naomi Feldman, as well as HESP faculty Jan Edwards and Yi Ting Huang.