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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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".

Paul on form and composition at Princeton

April 18, 2015 Linguistics

Princeton's Program in Linguistics hosts a talk by Paul Pietroski on Form and Composition.

Fac on fire at local footrace

April 18, 2015 Linguistics

Congratulations to Andrea Zukowski and Jeffrey Lidz, who took 1st and 2nd in their divisions at the Azalea Classic 5K run, a department tradition, with times of 26:00 and 21:04, respectively. Tonia Bleam ran her first ever 5K in 36:27!

Aaron to JHU Science of Learning Institute

April 11, 2015 Linguistics

Aaron Steven White has accepted a post-doc at the new Science of Learning Institute at Johns Hopkins, working with Kyle Rawlins in Cognitive Science and Ben Van Durme in Computer Science.

Kush, Lidz & Phillips on processing bound variable pronouns

April 09, 2015 Linguistics

Now in Journal of Memory and Language from alumnus Dave Kush "Relation-sensitive retrieval: Evidence from bound variable pronouns," work done with Jeffrey Lidz and Colin Phillips.

New from Sol Lago and her UMDrs

April 07, 2015 Linguistics

In Journal of Memory and Language and Brain and Language, two articles by alumna Sol Lago, with Ellen, Colin, Bill, 2014 alumnus Yakov Kronrod and 2009-11 postdoc Mathias Scharinger.

Terje elected to Norwegian Academy

April 04, 2015 Linguistics

2012 alumnus Terje Lohndal inducted to the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Letters.

UConn colloquium, with Omer Preminger

April 03, 2015 Linguistics

Omer Preminger gives the linguistics colloquium at the University of Connecticut.

Caitlin and Chris receive NSF fellowships

April 02, 2015 Linguistics

RA Caitlin Richter and Baggett Fellow Chris Hammerly have won Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation.

Language Science Center wins major NSF grant

April 01, 2015 Linguistics

The NSF has honored the LSC with a 5-year award to support interdisciplinary graduate training, through its NRT program (NSF Research Traineeship), a successor to the IGERT.