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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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Sixteen Arhu Students Win Summer 2015 Bright Futures Scholarships

June 05, 2015 American Studies, Art, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, French, Spanish and Portuguese, School of Music, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Congratulations to the sixteen ARHU students who won the Summer 2015 Bright Futures Scholarships!

Bill visiting at Bristol University

May 31, 2015 Linguistics

Bill Idsardi is a Visiting Professor at Bristol University's School of Experimental Psychology, home to 2005 alumna Nina Kazanina.

Valentine at Stanford

May 24, 2015 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard presents "Factivity: Semantics, Pragmatics and Learnability," an invited talk within the Cognition and Language Workshop series at Stanford.

Invited talk by Naomi at ETAP3 in Illinois

May 22, 2015 Linguistics

Naomi Feldman gives an invited talk at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody, "Testing low-level speech features using speech corpora."

Colin in Korea

May 18, 2015 Linguistics

Colin Phillips gives a series of 5 talks at Konkuk University, Seoul.

Dustin co-edits Descriptive Grammar of Bangla

May 15, 2015 Linguistics

Now available, "Descriptive Grammar of Bangla" by CASL's Anne Boyle David, with co-editors Dustin Chacón and Thomas Conners, also from CASL.

Aaron, Tom and Valentine open SALT at Stanford

May 14, 2015 Linguistics

SALT 25 opens with "On double access, cessation and parentheticality," work that Aaron Steven White, Tom Roberts and Valentine Hacquard have done with Daniel Altschuler from HHU Düsseldorf.

Arhu Faculty Earn Promotions And Tenure 2015

May 13, 2015 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, Classics, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Seventeen faculty members from the College of Arts and Humanities were awarded tenured positions and promotions to full professor.

Lidz in LSA spotlight

May 12, 2015 Linguistics

Jeffrey Lidz is this month's featured linguist in the LSA's "Member Spotlight".

Alumna tenured at Kansas Linguistics

May 03, 2015 Linguistics

Congratulations to Utako Minai, PhD 2006, now Associate Professor at the University of Kansas. Utako's dissertation, jointly directed by Jeff and Paul, concerned development in children's understanding of the quantifier "every".