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The Art and Humanity of AI

From classrooms to research labs, the College of Arts and Humanities is shaping how we understand artificial intelligence and guiding its responsible future.

May 08, 2025 Linguistics

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

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.

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Chabot in Phonology

December 13, 2024 Linguistics

The abstractness of lenition and gemination in Sardinian.

ARHU Students Honored at Dean's Scholars Awards Ceremony

December 04, 2024 American Studies, Arabic, Art, Art History and Archaeology, Chinese, Cinema and Media Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, French, German Studies, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Russian, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Outstanding students joined faculty, staff, family and friends for a celebration recognizing their academic excellence.

Hacquard headlines Heimfest

December 02, 2024 Linguistics

Questions in acquisition.

Bešlin in Brno

November 13, 2024 Linguistics

Invited talk at 17th Formal Description of Slavic Languages.

UMD at EMNLP

November 12, 2024 Linguistics

Terrapins in Florida on language models and human languages.

Today's Terrapins up at BU

November 01, 2024 Linguistics

On acquiring determiners, connectives and A'-dependencies, in the human way.

Jéssica to Göttingen for 5-year postdoc

October 28, 2024 Linguistics

Exploring negative polarity with Zeijlstra.

Olivia La Fiandra, Dean's Senior Scholar

October 26, 2024 Linguistics

Distinguished academic performance, leadership and community involvement.

Utku at online workshop on agreement

October 25, 2024 Linguistics

The octopus under the spoons and the lemons is swimming and boiling.

Jack on tone at the Annual Meeting on Phonology

October 21, 2024 Linguistics

Complex tone sandhi types in the Chinese Wu dialect of Huangyan.