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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 02, 2023 Linguistics

New work from Ellen and her students

On predication, relative clauses, wordhood, and word recognition.
February 18, 2022 Linguistics

Colin to head Section Z of the AAAS

Flying the flag for language in the science ecosystem.
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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Maryland linguists at local high schools

December 20, 2012 Linguistics

Jeffrey Lidz and Michaël Gagnon gave lectures to AP Psychology classes at Northwood High School (Silver Spring) and Paint Branch High School (Burtonsville).

2013-14 Capaa And Rasa Award Recipients

December 04, 2012 American Studies, Art, Art History and Archaeology, Classics, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Numerous ARHU faculty received Creative and Performing Arts Awards (CAPAA) or Research and Scholarship Awards (RASA) for 2013-14.
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2013-14 Capaa And Rasa Award Recipients

December 04, 2012 Art, American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, Classics, College of Arts and Humanities, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Numerous ARHU faculty received Creative and Performing Arts Awards (CAPAA) or Research and Scholarship Awards (RASA) for 2013-14.

Kenshi Funakoshi in Linguistic Inquiry

November 17, 2012 Linguistics

Just out in Linguistic Inquiry is "On Headless XP-Movement/Ellipsis" by Kenshi Funakoshi.

Thank you to Barbara Partee!

November 09, 2012 Linguistics

Thank you to Barbara Partee, for three fascinating days of lectures and meetings, generously supported by Dave Baggett.

Brad, Dave and Shevaun on sharing in France

October 27, 2012 Linguistics

November 2-3 Brad Larson presents "Psycholinguistic evidence for non-syntactic dependencies in coordinated-wh questions", joint work with Dave Kush and Shevaun Lewis at the Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Sharing in Nantes, France.

UMD linguists at BU Conference on Language Development

October 27, 2012 Linguistics

At this year's BUCLD: Kaitlyn Harrigan, Megan Sutton, Mike Fetters, Naho Orita, Akira Omaki, Susan Teubner-Rhodes, Jeffrey Lidz and Valentine Hacquard.

Ellen Lau in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

October 24, 2012 Linguistics

Congratulations to Ellen Lau, whose "Dissociating N400 effects of prediction from association in single word contexts" has been accepted to the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. The paper was co-authored with Phil Holcomb and Gina Kuperberg of Tufts Uni

Naomi talking at Delaware

October 22, 2012 Linguistics

Naomi Feldman is giving colloquium talk at the University of Delaware, "The role of the developing lexicon in constraining statistical learning".

Paul in Brazil

October 22, 2012 Linguistics

Paul Pietroski teaching a mini-course on his work, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil.