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Linguistics

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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Jeff recognized as Distinguished Scholar Teacher

March 27, 2015 Linguistics

Jeffrey Lidz honored by the University as a Distinguished Scholar Teacher.

Omer on extraction and Case in Mayan

March 25, 2015 Linguistics

Just out in Linguistic Variation, "The role of case in A-bar extraction asymmetries: Evidence from Mayan," by Jessica Coon, Pedro Mateo Pedro and our own Omer Preminger.

Six Terpresentations in Burnaby, B.C.

March 25, 2015 Linguistics

WCCFL 33 features work by Dongwoo, Kate, Valentine and Jeff, as well as alumni Alexis Wellwood, Alex Drummond, Dave Kush, Brad Larson, and imminent Terp Maria Polinsky, while alumnus Matt Wagers *08 gives a keynote address.

"Hyper-active gap-filling" now published

March 22, 2015 Linguistics

Now out in Frontiers, "Hyper-active Gap-filling" by Akira Omaki, Ellen Lau, Colin Phillips, and RAs Imogen White, Myles Dakan and Aaron Apple.

Dan Parker wins Katz Award

March 20, 2015 Linguistics

Dan Parker, class of 2014, has won the J.J. Katz Young Scholar Award at the Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

Terpitude in LA at the 28th CUNY

March 09, 2015 Linguistics

The CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing at USC hosts 40 presentations by 30 UMD students, faculty, RAs, alumni, postdocs and visitors, drawn from Linguistics, HESP, CASL, NACS, Psychology and Philosophy.

Alexander at State University of NJ

March 03, 2015 Linguistics

Alexander Williams gives the colloquium talk at Rutgers.

Omer in Leipzig, Germany

February 27, 2015 Linguistics

Omer Preminger presents "Syntactic operations exceed what the interfaces can account for" in Leipzig at the Alternative to Formal Features Workshop sponsored by the German Society for Linguistics.

Terpresentations at GALANA

February 13, 2015 Linguistics

GALANA features work by Kaitlyn Harrigan, Juliana Gerard, Valentine Hacquard, Jeffrey Lidz, alumna Morgan Moyer and visitor Elaine Grolla, plus introductory remarks from Howard.

Jeff Lidz receives NSF grant for GALANA

February 10, 2015 Linguistics

Jeff secures an NSF grant to support GALANA 2015, to be held here at UMD.