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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Matchin, Hammerly and Lau in Cortex

January 13, 2017 Linguistics

Poke into Cortex for "The role of the IFG and pSTS in syntactic prediction," from postdoc William Matchin, Baggett Christopher Hammerly, and their mentor Ellen Lau.

POTUS honors Chris Dyer

January 09, 2017 Linguistics

President Obama awards 2010 alum Chris Dyer the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

Alum among most prolific in NLP and ML

January 04, 2017 Linguistics

2010 alum Chris Dyer recognized as among the most prolific authors in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

Gesoel and Rodrigo at SSILA in Austin

December 25, 2016 Linguistics

Gesoel Mendes and Rodrigo Ranero are at The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas in Austin, Texas, presenting "Adjunct Extraction in Kaqchikel and Tz'utujiil."

Terps in Texas at 91st LSA

December 20, 2016 Linguistics

The 91st Annual Meeting of the LSA in Austin has work by Michaela, Rachel, Ted and Dongwoo.

Norbert in Current Affairs on Chomsky

December 09, 2016 Linguistics

Now out in "Current Affairs" from Norbert Hornstein with Nathan J. Robinson, "1000 Ways to Misrepresent Noam Chomsky."

Masha on Information Structure in NYC

December 05, 2016 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky is at the the CUNY Grad Center talking about "Information structure without cartography".

Kronrod et al. on phonetic perception

December 04, 2016 Linguistics

Now out Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, "A unified account of categorical effects in phonetic perception" by 2014 alum Yakov Kronrod, with Naomi Feldman and Emily Coppess.

Paulina at 12th FDSL in Berlin

December 01, 2016 Linguistics

Paulina Lyskawa presents "Separating universal principles from attrition and transfer in heritage language" at the conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages.

Jeff with alums in Natural Language Semantics

November 30, 2016 Linguistics

Now in Natural Language Semantics, "On how verification tasks are related to verification procedures" from Jeffrey Lidz, with alumni Tim Hunter and Alexis Wellwood, as well as Darko Odic.