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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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Valentine and Jeff in Handbook of Mental Lexicon

February 15, 2022 Linguistics

On acquiring the modal vocabulary, and using syntax as evidence of meaning.

Nick Huang and the Attitude All Stars in Language Acquisition

February 09, 2022 Linguistics

Syntactic bootstrapping attitude verbs despite impoverished morphosyntax.

Masha on clitics in Heritage Bulgarian

February 06, 2022 Linguistics

Heritage speakers of Bulgarian reanalyze the patterns of clitic placement.

Alexander in Philosophy Handbook

February 01, 2022 Linguistics

Why think that clauses are descriptions of events?

Dan in Journal of Semantics

January 30, 2022 Linguistics

All focus *is* contrastive.

Laurel, Naomi and Jeff in Cognitive Science

January 28, 2022 Linguistics

How to avoid learning from misleading data without knowing that it's misleading.

Welcome to lecturer Alex Chabot

January 27, 2022 Linguistics

From the Côte d'Azur to College Park for phonology.

MEG study of predictive speech processing in eLife journal

January 21, 2022 Linguistics

Evidence for parallel processing from Christian and Ellen, with Philip, Shohini, Aura and Jonathan Simon.

Valentine and Jeff, plus Shohini and al., in Annual Review co-edited by Colin

January 20, 2022 Linguistics

On the acquisition of attitude verbs, and neurocomputational models of processing.

Craig Thorburn "Taking linguistics to Zoom school"

January 19, 2022 Linguistics

LSA presentation on outreach through Zoom.