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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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Naomi awarded NSF grant with Micha Elsner

August 20, 2014 Linguistics

Naomi Feldman has been awarded an NSF grant for "Cognitive models of the acquisition of vowels in context," with OSU's Micha Elsner.

Hello Professor Preminger!

August 15, 2014 Linguistics

Hello to Omer Preminger, our new Assistant Professor, who starts with us this semester.

Jeff Green awarded trip to Taiwan for China Immersion Program

July 28, 2014 Linguistics

Jeffrey Green is one of three students representing UMD at the National Central University of Taiwan (NCU) annual Immersion Program in Chinese language and culture.

Aaron featured on IGERT webpage

July 28, 2014 Linguistics

IGERT has Aaron White as the "featured member" on the front page of its website.

Yakov Kronrod to postdoc at UPenn

July 22, 2014 Linguistics

Yakov Kronrod has accepted at postdoctoral research position with Dan Swingley in the University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychology.

Tadeu Alvares de Azevedo Lau!

July 18, 2014 Linguistics

Happy Birthday to Ellen Lau's healthy and beautiful boy Tadeu, born July 15th.

Mike Fetters talking at Nanzan

July 14, 2014 Linguistics

Michael Fetters and Koji Sugisaki present "On the Nature of Null Objects in Japanese: Preliminary Report of Psycholinguistic Experiments with Adults and Children" at the Nanzan University Center for Linguistics.

Work by eleven terps at IASCL in Amsterdam

July 05, 2014 Linguistics

The IASCL features work by Aaron, Alexis, Angela, Kate, Naho, Rachel, Shevaun, as well as Valentine, Jeff, Alexander, and Meredith Rowe including (at least) five papers, a poster and three workshops.

Jeff on kids' attitudes in Paris

June 26, 2014 Linguistics

Jeff Lidz delivers "Children's Attitude Problems" at the École Normale Superieure, reporting joint work with Valentine Hacquard and the Attitudes Group.

Chris Heffner awarded trip to New Zealand

June 24, 2014 Linguistics

Chris Heffner presents "A more slowly ticking clock isn’t less useful" at the Universitas 21 Graduate Research Conference: "Celebrating Ageing Research" in Aukland.