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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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2014-2015 Graduate Student And Faculty Fellowships And Awards

May 15, 2014 Art, American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, Classics, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, French, German Studies, Second Language Acquisition, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

ARHU graduate students and faculty members receive fellowships and awards.

Valentine Hacquard at the Ohio State University

May 12, 2014 Linguistics

Valentine Hacquard is an invited speaker at the workshop on Perspective and Modal Semantics, hosted by Linguistics at OSU.

LaTerzas at AFLA in Hawai'i

May 12, 2014 Linguistics

May 23-25 at U. Hawai'i at Manoa, Chris and Ivana LaTerza present "Samoan specificity and the Nominal Mapping Parameter" at AFLA 21, the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association.

Carolina Petersen at CUNY Syntax Supper

May 06, 2014 Linguistics

Carolina presents "(Hyper)-raising and Long Distance Agree and minimality effects: a view from Brazilian Portuguese, Greek, Romanian" at the CUNY Syntax Supper.

Masaya Yoshida tenured at Northwestern

May 05, 2014 Linguistics

2006 alum Masaya Yoshida is now Associate Professor at Northwestern, with tenure.

Linguists flourish at local footrace

May 03, 2014 Linguistics

Alum Shevaun Lewis took first in the under 30 women's division at the Azalea Classic 5K run, while speedy postdoc Tom Grano took 6th in the highly competitive division of men in their 30s.

Alexis Wellwood, faculty at Northwestern!

May 01, 2014 Linguistics

Alexis Wellwood is to be Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University.

Wing Yee Chow to faculty at London!

April 28, 2014 Linguistics

Wing Yee Chow joins the faculty of Linguistics at UCL, University College London, as Lecturer in Experimental Linguistics.

Carolina Petersen at LSRL44 in Ontario

April 25, 2014 Linguistics

Carolina presents "On locality effects in Brazilian Portuguese and Romanian: hyper-raising vs. LDA," a paper with Mihaela Marchis, at the 44th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL).

Sayaka Goto and Megan Sutton win CTE award

April 24, 2014 Linguistics

Sayaka Goto and Megan Sutton have been named 2013-14 Center for Teaching Excellence Distinguished Graduate Student Teachers.