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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Max in Georgia teaching at EGG

July 13, 2016 Linguistics

Maxime Papillon is in Lagodekhi, Georgia, teaching phonological theory at the Eastern Generative Grammar summer school.

Jeff, Tonia and visitors on prosodic bootstrapping

July 11, 2016 Linguistics

New in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, "English-speaking preschoolers can use phrasal prosody for syntactic parsing" by erstwhile visitors Alex de Carvalho and Lyn Tieu, with Jeffrey Lidz, Tonia Bleam and Anne Christophe.

2016-17 Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship Recipients

July 07, 2016 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, English, History, Linguistics, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Nine ARHU doctoral students receive 2016-17 Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships.

2016-17 Flagship Fellowship Recipients

July 07, 2016 Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics

Eight ARHU graduate students receive 2016-17 Flagship Fellowships.

Annie, Naomi & Jeff in Cognitive Science

July 05, 2016 Linguistics

Fresh in Cognitive Science, "Modeling Statistical Insensitivity: Sources of Suboptimal Behavior," from alumna Annie Gagliardi, with Naomi Feldman and Jeffrey Lidz.

NSF supports Masha on Mayan

July 03, 2016 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky's "Investigating Endangered Language Contact for Awakateko and K'iche', two Mayan languages" has won support from the NSF.

Philip wins two new grants

July 01, 2016 Linguistics

Philip Resnik has received both a Bloomberg Research Grant and for a UMB-UMCP seed grant.

Shannon, Anna, Ellen, Naomi & Bill on L2 phonology

June 30, 2016 Linguistics

Now out, "Establishing new mappings between familiar phones: Neural and behavioral evidence for early automatic processing of nonnative contrasts" by alumna Shannon Barrios and co-authors Anna Namyst, Ellen Lau, Naomi Feldman, and Bill Isardi.

Rachel wins Lasnik Award

June 28, 2016 Linguistics

Rachel Dudley is 2016 recipient of the Howard Lasnik Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student.

Masha directs 9th Heritage Language Institute

June 14, 2016 Linguistics

Maria Polinsky leads five faculty and four presenters at the Ninth Heritage Language Research Institute in Seattle.