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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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.

Jeff gives "Interface Transparency" in Catalonia

June 22, 2014 Linguistics

Jeff Lidz discusses "Interface Transparency" at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Chris Heffner in Psychological Science

June 20, 2014 Linguistics

Chris Heffner is among the authors of an article now out in Psychological Science: "Long-Term Temporal Tracking of Speech Rate Affects Spoken-Word Recognition."

Paul on "Most" in Burnaby, British Columbia

June 20, 2014 Linguistics

Paul is at Simon Fraser's Cognitive Science Speaker Series, delivering "Semantic Framing: The meaning of "most"."

Megan Sutton wins Lasnik Award for TAs

June 17, 2014 Linguistics

Megan Sutton wins the Howard Lasnik Distinguished Linguistics TA Award.

Welcome new faculty, Maria Polinsky!

June 14, 2014 Linguistics

Please welcome Maria Polinsky to our faculty!

Terps at the Association for Computational Linguistics in Baltimore

June 13, 2014 Linguistics

The 52nd ACL features much Terpwork!

Allyson Ettinger wins NSF Fellowship

June 11, 2014 Linguistics

Allyson Ettinger has won an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, with three years of full support.

Jeff Lidz teaching at LOT in the Netherlands

June 10, 2014 Linguistics

Jeff is at the LOT Summerschool in Nijmegen, teaching "Input and Intake in Language Acquisition," as well as a masterclass titled "Research in Language Acquisition and Processing".

NASSLLI at Maryland

June 09, 2014 Linguistics

UMD hosts the 6th NASSLI, or North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information.