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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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Masaya and Wing-Yee, invited at EAPC3

August 01, 2015 Linguistics

The 3rd East Asian Psycholinguistics Colloquium has two alums as invited speakers: Masaya Yoshida *06 and Wing-Yee Chow, *13.

Baggett alumna to faculty at Duke

July 27, 2015 Linguistics

Baggett alum Elika Bergelson joins Duke University as Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience.

Omer on Case in Sakha

July 27, 2015 Linguistics

Now out in the proceedings of WAFL, Preminger and Kornfilt's "Nominative as no case at all: An argument from raising-to-ACC in Sakha".

Computational linguists at ACL in Beijing

July 18, 2015 Linguistics

Naho, Naomi, Philip and Hal, have work at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Maryland in Pasadena at CogSci 2015

July 12, 2015 Linguistics

CogSci has two Terp posters, with work by Alayo, Naomi and Bill from Linguistics, as well as Alison Shell, Jared Linck and Bob Slevc from Psychology and CASL.

New publication from Chris Heffner

July 03, 2015 Linguistics

Now in the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, "Age-Related Differences in Speech Rate Perception Do Not Necessarily Entail Age-Related Differences in Speech Rate Use" by Chris Heffner and co-authors.

Angela He wins Lasnik Award

June 24, 2015 Linguistics

Angela He is recipient of the Howard Lasnik Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student.

Brad Larson to Iowa!

June 18, 2015 Linguistics

2013 alumnus Bradley Larson is to be Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Iowa, in Iowa City.

Language science meets 'The Wheels on the Bus' at Helix Center Roundtable

June 16, 2015 Maryland Language Science Center, Linguistics

Maryland language scientists are used to the idea of interdisciplinary collaboration - but rarely sit down to discuss language science with psychoanalysts and children’s book authors.

Colin on pronouns in Moscow

June 13, 2015 Linguistics

Colin Phillips joins Eric Reuland and Barbara Partee in giving four lectures at a mini-conference on pronouns within the annual summer school in linguistics at Moscow's Higher School of Economics.