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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Welcome Kate, Omar and Aron

October 24, 2023 Linguistics

New faculty in phonology, syntax and semantics.

Welcome Sharon Goldwater

October 23, 2023 Linguistics

Visiting from Edinburgh for a month.

Maryland in Marseille at SNL

October 16, 2023 Linguistics

Le jour de gloire est arrivé!

Colin and Rosa in Korea

October 15, 2023 Linguistics

Maryland psycholinguistics at the Applied Linguistics Association of Korea.

Masha in Taiwan

October 15, 2023 Linguistics

Academica Sinica

Jéssica and Caleb at Semantics and Philosophy in Europe

September 28, 2023 Linguistics

On thinking and finding that Nice is nice.

New posts for alums in 2023

September 23, 2023 Linguistics

Moving on to new postdocs, professorships and promotions.

Valentine on bootstrapping, with commentators

September 22, 2023 Linguistics

Special issue of the Journal of Child Language.

Hacquard at McGill

September 21, 2023 Linguistics

On learning that you cannot do what you must not.

Bešlin invited to Budapest

September 20, 2023 Linguistics

Simplifying grammar to explain evolution and acquisition.