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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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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.

Omer at UCLA colloquium

February 06, 2015 Linguistics

Omer Preminger gives a talk at UCLA, "Beyond Interface Conditions."

Aaron awarded NSF dissertation grant

February 06, 2015 Linguistics

Aaron Steven White has won NSF support to work on "Information and incrementality in syntactic bootstrapping," his forthcoming dissertation, with Co-PI Jeffrey Lidz Lidz and PI Valentine Hacquard.

Colin on illusions at Princeton

February 01, 2015 Linguistics

Princeton's Program in Linguistics hosts a talk by Colin Phillips on "Linguistic Illusions: Some recent surprises."

Christopher Hammerly at BLS

January 29, 2015 Linguistics

Baggett Fellow Christopher Hammerly talks on French grammatical gender at the Berkeley Linguistics Society's 41st annual meeting.

Alexander's book is out

January 27, 2015 Linguistics

Now legally available, Alexander Williams's Arguments in Syntax and Semantics.

Valentine at Santa Cruz colloquium

January 18, 2015 Linguistics

Valentine talks at the UC Santa Cruz linguistics colloquium, under the heading "Bootstrapping into attitudes."

H.S. RA semi-finalist in Intel Talent Search

January 13, 2015 Linguistics

Montgomery Blair student Harini Salgado is a semi-finalist in the Intel Talent Search for her "Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence to Study the Effects of Vocal Tract Length Normalization on Dialect Differences in Vowel Speech Samples."

Omer on Sakha Case in NLLT

January 13, 2015 Linguistics

Now out in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Omer Preminger's “Case in Sakha: are two modalities really necessary?", co-authored with Theodore Levin.

Elika Bergelson among Forbes's "young scientists who are changing the world"

January 05, 2015 Linguistics

2008 Baggett alum Elika Bergelson is one of Forbes's "30 Under 30: Young Scientists Who Are Changing The World".